The city's all-powerful mayor was ignoring their pleas, so the public students of Chicago felt they had no choice but...
It's increasingly common for distributors to make movies previewable on password-protected webpages, and for exhibitors to send critics passwords rather...
Tomorrow night, the University of Chicago's Doc Films will screen the Joseph H. Lewis noir Gun Crazy, one of the...
Corbett vs. Dempsey, the record label, has just released one of the rarest and most historically murky recordings in the...
The Unspeakable Act, which screens this week at the Gene Siskel Film Center (and with writer-director Dan Sallitt in attendance...
In this week's long review Drew Hunt considers The Unspeakable Act, a new indie drama by Dan Sallitt in which...
A few days ago I got an e-mail from Robbie Fulks letting me know about the next installment of his...
When did people start saying "porn" as shorthand for pornography? It sounds like a product of the home video era,...
A few weeks ago British filmmaker Adam Curtis responded to the death of Margaret Thatcher by uploading The Attic, his...
"The Japanese film audience still behaves much as it does at the theater," wrote Donald Richie in his A Hundred...
I've requested the same simple birthday cake every year since I was teenager. It's a recipe from the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette...
Chicago is lucky to still have a full-time classical-music radio station in WFMT, but for fans of composed music that's...
This week the River East 21 is showing two new Bollywood releases: Go Goa Gone, a horror-comedy about zombies attacking...
The problem with the Bulls and Derrick Rose is that the Bulls don't need inspiration. They live and breathe inspiration.…...
In this week's paper I wrote a preview for the Saturday performance by Wheelhouse at Constellation. The trio includes reedist...
• Paul Kahan (tied with David Chang for Outstanding Chef), Stephanie Izard (Best Chef: Great Lakes), and the Aviary (Outstanding...
In this week's long review Tal Rosenberg makes a case for Olivier Assayas's latest feature, Something in the Air, as...
This Saturday at noon, the Music Box will screen Yasujiro Ozu's An Inn in Tokyo (1935) in its monthly silent-cinema...
On Sunday afternoon Bay Area group Faun Fables rolls into town to play a house concert on the northwest side...
Since I reviewed it last fall, I've often found myself thinking about a shot in the Turkish film Honey. From...
Over the last decade or so the Korean cellist Okkyung Lee has nonchalantly toggled between disparate music worlds, leading her...
The credits of Bush Mama (1976) list Haile Gerima not as director but as "answerable," a welcome gesture of responsibility...
In February I blogged about a new partnership between the Old Town School of Folk Music and the Chicago public...
Today at 5:30 PM Doc Films will host a free screening of the 2007 Indian documentary Jashn-e-Azadi (How We Celebrate...
