Archival video from the golden era of WTTW’s Soundstage captures the author, cartoonist, singer-songwriter, and Wrigley hot dog vendor in the two sides of his persona, and their appeal to two very different age groups.
The Chicago artist discusses hip-hop, the black antihero, and Brothers of the Robbing Hood
The prolific documentarian—and SAIC grad—opens his exhibit, The Lost Vanguard, at the Graham Foundation Thursday night.
In 1970, Ebert was a young critic at the Sun-Times, when he came across a young singer-songwriter-mailman playing future standards at the Fifth Peg, in “out of the way” Lincoln Park.
The Chicago-based show could be the next cancellation of the fall season. What went wrong?
Yes, the schedule is full of offerings from around the world, but the Chicago International Film Festival, which starts October 11, has more than a few movies with Windy City ties.
On your agenda: Irvin Welsh writes a play… top-tier comedians talk funny-business… free art, the weekend plans of the Chicago International Film Festival’s program director Mimi Plauché
The notoriously rigorous actor surprised people with his reedy-voiced Great Emancipator, but it’s actually a lot closer to what Abraham Lincoln plausibly sounded like than the profoundly silly screen Lincolns of legend.
Daniel Day-Lewis captures Lincoln’s (high-pitched) voice in the much-anticipated historical drama
Dael Orlandersmith’s one-woman show, about the victims—and perpetrators—of child molestation and abuse, takes the audience to a dark place.
