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26/06/2025

"Vroom-Vroom! Gentlemen, start your engines for 'Days of Thunder'!" is a legendary lede from a local review from almost forty years ago. Joseph Kosinski's pace hardly flags: his "F1" is vroom-vroom with a view.

"Vroom-Vroom! Gentlemen, start your engines for 'Days of Thunder'!" is a legendary lede from a local review from almost forty years ago. Joseph Kosinski's pace hardly flags: his "F1" is vroom-vroom with a view.

26/06/2025

Chicago theater gets cinematic this summer.

Featuring productions from Steppenwolf Theatre Company, The Factory Theater, Invictus Theatre Co, Kokandy Productions and Oak Park Festival Theatre.

Chicago theater gets cinematic this summer.

26/06/2025

Engage Projects hosts Adam Daley Wilson’s newest solo exhibition, boldly titled “This is Post-Theory Art.”

“This is Post-Theory Art” is an exploration of how to reclaim fine arts status and protect the creativity behind the label "artist."

26/06/2025

The story of the symbiotic relationship between plants and people is engagingly told in "Fifty Plants That Changed the World" by British plant scientist Stephen Harris.

The story of the symbiotic relationship between plants and people is engagingly told in "Fifty Plants That Changed the World" by British plant scientist Stephen Harris.

26/06/2025

“Metallic Life Review” nicely encapsulates Matmos' new album, composed entirely of sounds made with metal objects.

Matmos plays Constellation Chicago on June 29.

“Metallic Life Review” nicely encapsulates Matmos' new album, composed entirely of sounds made with metal objects.

25/06/2025

Josh Dihle has the visual vernacular of an obsessive-compulsive raised on "Goodnight Moon."

Josh Dihle has the visual vernacular of an obsessive-compulsive raised on "Goodnight Moon."

25/06/2025

This summer Oak Park Festival Theatre is marking its fiftieth anniversary. Peter Andersen says that Shakespeare in the park as “American as apple pie.”

24/06/2025

The Seldoms' hypercolor reverie comes to the Chicago Botanic Garden, plus four other dance performances not to miss this July/

24/06/2025

In “Strawberry,” the single room-sized sculpture that makes up Caitlyn Min-ji Au’s solo show “Panda,” the artificial idiot is a Roborock Q7 Max robot vacuum trying to traverse the known world and return home.

In “Strawberry,” the single room-sized sculpture that makes up Caitlyn Min-ji Au’s solo show “Panda,” the artificial idiot is a Roborock Q7 Max robot vacuum trying to traverse the known world and return home.

24/06/2025

Five By Fellini, Wong Kar-Wai's achingly aching 2001 masterpiece and more movies to see in Chicago this July.

What's playing at the Film Center, Music Box, Facets and beyond.

24/06/2025

In the seventeenth century, the Ta**us polymath Athanasius Kircher constructed a fantastical machine called the Aeolian harp. It wasn’t designed to be played by human fingers, but by the wind.

CANCER: identify the single desire that motivates you more than any other.

24/06/2025

Rhythm Fest celebrates Third Coast Percussion's twentieth anniversary with a full day of performances across the historic Epiphany Center for the Arts.

Rhythm Fest celebrates Third Coast Percussion's twentieth anniversary with a full day of performances across the historic Epiphany Center.