As Los Angeles continues to recover from fires that destroyed more than 14,000 structures and displaced tens of thousands, the Recording Academy has reformatted the Grammy Awards to benefit to help wildfire victims.
Category: Entertainment
Today in History: ‘American Sniper’ Chris Kyle killed
On Feb. 2, 2013, former Navy SEAL and “American Sniper” author Chris Kyle was fatally shot along with a friend, Chad Littlefield, at a gun range west of Glen Rose, Texas; Eddie Ray Routh was later convicted of murder and sentenced to life in prison without parole.
Jack Helbig, a caustic critic with a deep love for teaching and Chicago theater, dies at 66
His short reviews in such publications as Newcity and the Chicago Reader could be withering, but only if he didn’t like your show. If he did, he was your champion.
Explaining the curious case of ‘Emilia Pérez,’ the woebegone Oscar frontrunner
Jacques Audiard’s “Emilia Pérez” is an Oscar contender unlike any other. It’s a musical, a trans parable, and a Mexico-set melodrama, all combined into one unique amalgamation by an international filmmaking team. And just as singularly, it’s a best picture front-runner that, it sometimes seems, no one likes.
Review: In ‘The Heart Sellers’ at Northlight, newcomers compare notes on their adopted homeland
In playwright Lloyd Suh’s comedy, two recent immigrants in 1973 share impressions of their strange and fascinating new country.
You wanna fight? Video game competitions, once the stuff of arcades, now fill hotel convention centers
This last weekend’s Frosty Faustings FFXVII in Lombard was part of a thriving subculture, with gamers coming from all over the country to compete.
Column: Damon Locks explores improvisational jazz and punk poetry in ‘List of Demands’
Damon Locks’ latest solo release, “List of Demands,” is a dense, tour-de-force collection of improvisational jazz and punk poetry.
Column: That show should have been a movie
If you’ve sat down to watch a show and thought “That should have been a movie,” here’s why it’s become the scourge of streaming.
Today in History: The Beatles stage their last public performance
On Jan. 30, 1969, The Beatles staged an unannounced concert atop Apple headquarters in London that would be their last public performance.
Neko Case didn’t set out to write a tell-all. Yet she still told plenty in ‘The Harder I Fight The More I Love You’
Her new book is unlike her music in an important way: The book is as direct as her song writing is cryptic. Those Chicago years play an important part.