Christopher Borrelli

Filmmaker Ariella Khan, left, watches a memory stick containing her short film burn after it was screened in front of an audience for the "Destroy Your Art" event at Music Box Theatre on Sept. 26, 2023, in Chicago.

Kill your darlings: Music Box series invites filmmakers to show a new movie once, then destroy it forever

September 28, 2023 at 5:45 a.m.

On Tuesday night, at the Music Box Theatre in Lakeview, a most alarming affair unfolded in front of a near-full house of movie lovers: Local filmmakers, Chicago directors, each of...

Artist Kelly Kristin Jones of River Forest wraps a statue of Abraham Lincoln in Garfield Park in Chicago on Aug. 21, 2023.

Guerrilla artist Kelly Kristin Jones knows what to do about problematic public statues. You might not like it.

March 12, 2024 at 11:56 a.m.

"Is this a protest?" Kelly Kristin Jones smiles at the question and thinks about how to reply. She doesn't smile smugly or tightly. She smiles because it is a good...

A few of the sleepers of the fall book season include Paula Ramon's "Motherland," about a family navigating the fall of Venezuela, and South Shore native Gabriel Bump's "The New Natural," about the rise and decline of a utopian community.

Books for fall 2023: Our 75 top picks for serious reading season — and there’s plenty of light stuff here too

March 12, 2024 at 11:56 a.m.

Am I the only one who thinks it's weird that we keep treating the seasons as clearly delineated stretches of time? I love fall, and particularly that lineal moment right...

Lauren M. Pacheco, Phillip Bahar and Michael Green of the Chicago Humanities Festival in 2022.

Chicago Humanities Festival lands a knockout fall 2023 lineup — and a new direction

September 8, 2023 at 9:46 a.m.

The fall lineup for the 2023 Chicago Humanities Festival is here, but before you poke around its ambitious sprawl of 50-something events, spread over two months (Sept. 17 to Nov....

Alice Cooper performs at Charlotte Metro Credit Union Amphitheatre on Oct. 7, 2021 in Charlotte, North Carolina.

Alice Cooper at 75: ‘The audience is shock proof now.’ But our list of 10 things that might surprise them.

August 28, 2023 at 5:45 a.m.

Alice Cooper, the former Vincent Furnier, former high school track star, former resident of Detroit and Chicago, did not die this week at 75. Despite a half-century of horrifyingly playful...

Rebecca De Mornay and Tom Cruise are Lana and Joel in the movie "Risky Business" in 1983.

‘Risky Business’ at 40: Tom Cruise’s Chicago-made movie has even more to say now — about inequality, about the North Shore

August 24, 2023 at 5:45 a.m.

On the North Shore of Chicago, there are two homes firmly enmeshed in Hollywood lore. I'm likely not telling you anything you didn't know. Both were in John Hughes films:...

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Kill your darlings: Music Box series invites filmmakers to show a new movie once, then destroy it forever

Guerrilla artist Kelly Kristin Jones knows what to do about problematic public statues. You might not like it.

Books for fall 2023: Our 75 top picks for serious reading season — and there’s plenty of light stuff here too

Chicago Humanities Festival lands a knockout fall 2023 lineup — and a new direction

Alice Cooper at 75: ‘The audience is shock proof now.’ But our list of 10 things that might surprise them.

‘Risky Business’ at 40: Tom Cruise’s Chicago-made movie has even more to say now — about inequality, about the North Shore

What is the new ‘Star Wars: Ahsoka’ series on Disney+ and why you should care

Evanston author falls into a whale! Lives to tell about it! (And then some!)

The mighty Max Weinberg, drummer for Springsteen, took requests last night at the Park West

Artist JeeYeun Lee’s walking tours tell a very different story about Chicago and its lakefront