Kevin Bacon plays a bail bondsman brutally killed, only to be suddenly back among the living and working for the devil.
‘The Bondsman’ review: Kevin Bacon, the demon slayer
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As ‘Titanique’ opens in Chicago, talking to the actress who plays Céline Dion
This show is a musical spoof of both the 1997 movie “Titanic” and the Canadian vocal diva Céline Dion. We spoke with Clare Kennedy McLaughlin, a Northwestern University graduate who plays Céline.
Restaurant news: Kanin, a Filipino Hawaiian bodega in Ravenswood, opens with lines two blocks long in Chicago
Plus more openings, closings and pizza news, including tavern and Detroit style, in the city and suburbs.
Montevideo, Uruguay: 50,000 steps in a city where the sidewalk never ends
The nearly 14-mile waterside promenade La Rambla serves as an outdoor living room for locals and as an antidote to visitors’ winter blues.
New film ‘How Lucky Can One Man Get’ captures the magic of John Prine in concert
A new film captures the musician during a 2010 concert at Proviso East High School in Maywood.
Val Kilmer, film star who played Batman and Jim Morrison, dies at 65
Val Kilmer, a homegrown Hollywood actor who tasted leading-man stardom as Jim Morrison and Batman, but whose protean gifts and elusive personality also made him a high-profile supporting player, died on Tuesday in Los Angeles. He was 65.
George Freeman, a trailblazing jazz guitarist who enjoyed a late-career renaissance, dies at 97
Though at times overshadowed by his famous brother Von Freeman, he collaborated with the biggest names in jazz and also released his own celebrated albums. Born on the South Side, he always called Chicago home.
‘The Last Anniversary’ review: From the producers of ‘Big Little Lies,’ another Liane Moriarty novel adapted for TV
A matriarch dies and leaves her house on a lush, remote island to an unlikely person.
Column: When billiards and bowling were all the rage
With the rising popularity of pickleball, a look back at two other, even bigger pursuits: billiards and bowling.
‘Misericordia’ review: A funeral mourner sparks a tiny French village’s erotic roundelay
Under wraps or busting out all over, inconvenient yearning is everywhere in the films of Alain Guiraudie. And like most of his characters, the French writer-director likes to keep his options open. No one genre suits him. Now at the Gene Siskel Film Center and the Landmark Century Centre Cinema, “Misericordia” begins with a homecoming, […]