Chicago Tribune

‘Anselm’ review: The most beautiful 3D film experience is showing this week at the Music Box Theatre

Michael Phillips — Thu, 01 Feb 2024 00:00:06 +0000

Wim Wenders' documentary at Chicago's Music Box Theatre makes for the finest 3D viewing experience I can recall.

Alec Baldwin pleads not guilty to involuntary manslaughter in fatal film-set shooting

Associated Press Staff — Wed, 31 Jan 2024 23:57:33 +0000

Actor Alec Baldwin has pleaded not guilty to an involuntary manslaughter charge in the fatal shooting of a cinematographer during a rehearsal on a movie set in New Mexico.

‘Argylle’ review: I spy utter mediocrity from the maker of the ‘Kingsman’ trilogy

Michael Phillips — Wed, 31 Jan 2024 19:55:18 +0000

My opinion of the movie aside: If you enjoyed director Matthew Vaughn’s “Kingsman” movies, you’ll probably go for “Argylle,” which is scarcely less violent and at least as glibly sadistic.

Review: In ‘Highway Patrol’ at Goodman Theatre, a brave Dana Delany meets a mysterious fan

Chris Jones — Wed, 31 Jan 2024 18:07:21 +0000

Dana Delany is an actress with guts, that’s for sure.

Chance the Rapper will perform at the Ramova Theatre

Doug George — Wed, 31 Jan 2024 17:19:33 +0000

Chance the Rapper will perform at the Ramova Theatre in Bridgeport in a concert 7 p.m. Feb. 16, according to an announcement Wednesday.

‘Feud: Capote vs. The Swans’: When Truman Capote skewered New York’s elite

Nina Metz — Wed, 31 Jan 2024 16:00:00 +0000

A mascot of New York's high society, Truman Capote revealed their ugly secrets on the pages of Esquire magazine — and lived to regret it.

Budweiser brings back Clydesdales as early Super Bowl ad releases offer up nostalgia, humor and celebrities

Mae Anderson — Wed, 31 Jan 2024 14:21:25 +0000

Budweiser is bringing back some familiar characters this year in its Super Bowl ad. The perennial Super Bowl marketer is bringing back fan-favorite characters the Clydesdales and a Labrador — a nod to the Labradors that starred in earlier commercials during advertising’s biggest night.

‘He didn’t run’: A flutist honors his grandfather, a Chicago Defender journalist during the civil rights movement

Hannah Edgar — Wed, 31 Jan 2024 12:37:42 +0000

Flutist Adam Sadberry, 27, never met his grandfather, the pioneering African American journalist L. Alex Wilson.

Think ‘Les Miz’ and lasers. Broadway Raves are the new big night out for young lovers of show tunes.

Christopher Borrelli — Wed, 31 Jan 2024 11:45:00 +0000

"Masquerade," anyone? We traveled to Detroit to catch this touring singular sensation before it plays a sell-out party at Subterranean.

Katy Sullivan takes on ‘Richard III’ with her own brand of strength at Chicago Shakespeare

Emily McClanathan — Wed, 31 Jan 2024 11:15:00 +0000

Katy Sullivan will be the first woman with a disability to play the title role in a major U.S. production of Shakespeare’s “Richard III.”

Biblioracle: You can’t read all the books. But thanks goodness I didn’t miss ‘Chain-Gang All-Stars’

John Warner — Wed, 31 Jan 2024 11:10:00 +0000

“Chain-Gang All-Stars” is a tour de force at the conceptual, character, plot and action level. What a shame it would be if I hadn’t read this book.

Oral history project by Chicago Theological Seminary shows how it served as incubator for area’s civil rights leaders

Darcel Rockett — Wed, 31 Jan 2024 11:00:00 +0000

Project documents the trajectory of the Rev. Jesse Jackson Sr. and others who were involved with Operation Breadbasket.

National Public Housing Museum opens exhibit on eviction: ‘Housing insecurity is weighing heavy on so many of us’

Darcel Rockett — Wed, 31 Jan 2024 11:00:00 +0000

The museum's "Evicted" exhibit explores the struggles of low-income renters and ignites a call to address evictions locally and nationally.

Notable celebrity and newsmaker deaths of 2024

Tue, 30 Jan 2024 23:07:00 +0000

A look at the notable celebrities and newsmakers who died in 2024.

Chita Rivera, revered and pioneering Tony-winning dancer and singer, dies at 91

Mark Kennedy — Tue, 30 Jan 2024 23:02:43 +0000

Chita Rivera, the dynamic dancer, singer and actress who garnered 10 Tony nominations, winning twice, in a long Broadway career that forged a path for Latina artists and shrugged off a near-fatal car accident, died Tuesday. She was 91.

Review: ‘Flood’ by Shattered Globe Theatre stays underwater

Chris Jones — Tue, 30 Jan 2024 19:24:59 +0000

In the grim drama “Flood," Mashuq Mushtaq Deen has written an environmentalist allegory with absurdist underpinnings.

Column: What does ‘Godzilla Minus One’ have that Hollywood doesn’t?

Michael Phillips — Tue, 30 Jan 2024 18:08:57 +0000

Back for a very limited run in black-and-white, "Godzilla Minus One/Minus Color" is a triumph of efficiently budgeted imagination.

Music rooted in Bohemia unites fans in Orland Park: ‘A lot of polka people are more like family than friends’

Bill Jones — Tue, 30 Jan 2024 17:11:28 +0000

The 55th Annual Chicago Festival of Polka Bands in Orland Park brought long-time polka enthusiasts together, creating a sense of family and nostalgia.

Into the lucrative world of sports trading cards and memorabilia with expert Michael Osacky

Rick Kogan — Tue, 30 Jan 2024 11:00:00 +0000

Michael Osacky occupies an important niche in the surprisingly vast, sometimes wicked and increasingly competitive and lucrative world of sports memorabilia.