Carlos Lerma is finding success at film festivals locally and nationally, while helping plan the Chicago International Film Festival, which starts Wednesday.
The pop-up coffee shop, inspired by Carpenter’s hit album, will be located at Happy Monday Coffee in the Loop, 30 E. Adams St.
Also on our list: Hillary Rodham Clinton speaking on her latest book, accountant-turned-house DJ and producer John Summit in town and “Misery” at the American Blues Theater.
One of director Kenny Leon’s distinctive gifts is his ability to take a canonical American play and make it feel like it was written about all Americans.
Wind Creek said the casino, set to open Nov. 11, will feature 1,350 slot machines, 56 table games, buffet and entertainment areas.
Williams is worthy of the outside-the-box treatment, as his innovative productions have helped redefine hip hop and stretched the genre’s boundaries.
In Art Martin’s driveway sits a 1947 Chevy Fleetmaster, painted kandy brandywine. The curves go on for days. He put too much into that car, he says.
The more uncertainty the business of film must weather, the more necessary a city’s film festivals become. To me, anyway. Maybe not to you, at least not yet, or not anymore. You may have eased out of the habit of moviegoing sometime around March 2020 and made your peace and your pandemic adjustment with streaming. […]
Is it just my imagination, or is “The Apprentice” a pretty interesting movie? Less than a month before a U.S. presidential election, you’d expect an 11th-hour Trump biopic (which premiered earlier this year at the Cannes Film Festival) to settle for cheap smears and a bunch of propaganda. Such stuff is hardly restricted to the […]
Thousands of books have been removed from schools and libraries over the past several years, often accompanied by stormy public meetings and acrimonious debate. But there is a quieter way books have been pulled from libraries — a process called weeding.