AvatarChicago Tribune‘Anselm’ review: The most beautiful 3D film experience is showing this week at the Music Box TheatreChicago Tribune - Michael PhillipsThe new Wim Wenders documentary “Anselm,” opening at the Music Box Theatre this weekend, makes sublime and supple use of the finest 3D film experience I can remember. If your idea of contemporary 3D movies goes straight to watching the “Clash of the Titans” remake wearing cheap eyewear and …
AvatarChicago TribuneAvatarAvatarAlec Baldwin pleads not guilty to involuntary manslaughter in fatal film-set shootingChicago Tribune - Associated Press StaffSANTA FE, N.M. — 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. Court documents filed Wednesday show Baldwin entered the plea in state district court in Santa Fe, waiving an …
AvatarChicago Tribune‘Argylle’ review: I spy utter mediocrity from the maker of the ‘Kingsman’ trilogyChicago Tribune - Michael PhillipsI’d like to put it this way: “Argylle,” an action comedy about a timid spy novelist who gets mixed up in heavy-duty real-world espionage, is zingy and rollicking in its chosen style, and while that style doesn’t work for me, I can respect the craft. I’d like to put it that way but I can’t. It’s not …
AvatarChicago TribuneAvatarAvatarReview: In ‘Highway Patrol’ at Goodman Theatre, a brave Dana Delany meets a mysterious fanChicago Tribune - Chris JonesDana Delany is an actress with guts, that’s for sure. Network dramas like “China Beach,” “Desperate Housewives” and “Burden of Proof,” all high points of the glamorous Delany’s prime-time TV career, represent a genre that has lost its mass audience to a streaming stew of niche, elite and low-rent …
AvatarChicago TribuneAvatarAvatarChance the Rapper will perform at the Ramova TheatreChicago Tribune - Doug GeorgeChance the Rapper will perform at the Ramova Theatre in Bridgeport in a concert 7 p.m. Feb. 16, according to an announcement Wednesday. Tickets go on sale to the public 10 a.m. Feb. 2; tickets and more information at ramovachicago.com and event.etix.com. (This will be an all-ages show, according to …
AvatarChicago TribuneAvatarAvatar‘Feud: Capote vs. The Swans’: When Truman Capote skewered New York’s eliteChicago Tribune - Nina MetzWhen a biography of Truman Capote was published in 1997, a review that ran in the Denver Post distilled his singular place in pop culture to its essence: “The uneducated arriviste from Monroeville, Alabama, sneaked into the postwar jet set as court jester, raconteur, father confessor, partygoer and …
AvatarChicago TribuneAvatarAvatarBudweiser brings back Clydesdales as early Super Bowl ad releases offer up nostalgia, humor and celebritiesChicago Tribune - Mae AndersonNEW YORK — 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 …
AvatarChicago TribuneAvatarAvatar‘He didn’t run’: A flutist honors his grandfather, a Chicago Defender journalist during the civil rights movementChicago Tribune - Hannah EdgarFlutist Adam Sadberry, 27, never met his grandfather, the pioneering African American journalist L. Alex Wilson (1909-1960). Just about everything Sadberry knew about Wilson he learned secondhand: his mother was three when Wilson died, and he didn’t hear much more from his grandmother before her …
AvatarChicago TribuneAvatarAvatarThink ‘Les Miz’ and lasers. Broadway Raves are the new big night out for young lovers of show tunes.Chicago Tribune - Christopher BorrelliDETROIT — Annie, her ginger wig glistening beneath a flurry, sneaked a hit off her vaping pen. She shivered and leaped in place to stay warm. It was, this frigid Midwest evening, a hard-knock life. It was 11 degrees and the snowy ground was frozen. The line outside the club stretched from the …
AvatarChicago TribuneAvatarAvatarKaty Sullivan takes on ‘Richard III’ with her own brand of strength at Chicago ShakespeareChicago Tribune - Emily McClanathanTony Award nominee. Paralympic runner. As if Katy Sullivan’s bio weren’t impressive enough, she’s about to add another accomplishment when she becomes the first woman with a disability to play the title role in a major U.S. production of Shakespeare’s “Richard III.” Sullivan, who is a bilateral …
AvatarChicago TribuneAvatarAvatarBiblioracle: You can’t read all the books. But thanks goodness I didn’t miss ‘Chain-Gang All-Stars’Chicago Tribune - John WarnerYou can’t read all the books. You can’t even read all the books you want to read, even if you’re someone like me who is lucky enough to be able to say that reading books is a professional obligation. As I hope readers know, I take my responsibility to recommend books to those who request them very …
AvatarChicago TribuneAvatarAvatarNational Public Housing Museum opens exhibit on eviction: ‘Housing insecurity is weighing heavy on so many of us’Chicago Tribune - Darcel RockettAs winter progresses with cold, rain and snow, Dorothy Gale’s words from “The Wizard of Oz” ring true, “there’s no place like home.” But according to a recent report from the Joint Center for Housing Studies of Harvard University, housing has become unaffordable for half of U.S. renters. That’s 22.4 …