Christopher Borrelli – Page 27

Bruce Springsteen performs at the Fiserv Forum, March 7, 2023, in Milwaukee.

Bruce Springsteen in Milwaukee: At 73, he’s a little more open about final goodbyes. His tour brings him to Chicago in August.

March 8, 2023 at 12:10 p.m.

Bruce Springsteen stood beneath a muted stage light and fingered an acoustic guitar and told a long story. If you've seen Springsteen and the E Street Band before, you know...

Gillian Flynn, the author of "Gone Girl" and other books, at home in Chicago on March 6, 2023.

When will Gillian Flynn write the next ‘Gone Girl’? Later. She’s a publisher now.

March 7, 2023 at 2:38 p.m.

Margot Douaihy reached Lincoln Park in a roundabout way. She grew up in Scranton, Pennsylvania. She came from a religious family and a long line of clergy. She went to...

People walk through the "Salvador Dalí: The Image Disappears" exhibit at the Art Institute of Chicago.

Stop making sense: Why a new Art Institute show on Dalí revisits surrealism at exactly the right time

March 2, 2023 at 12:50 p.m.

How's your day been? "Surreal?" Probably. Before I left the house to visit the new Salvador Dalí exhibit at the Art Institute of Chicago, I noticed a headline that described...

Daniel Kaluuya in a scene from the movie "Get Out."

‘The Black guy dies first’: A Northwestern provost is our leading expert on representation in horror movies

February 28, 2023 at 9:12 a.m.

Robin Means Coleman has heard it all. Cliches like: Maybe we should split up and look. Tropes like: I didn't get bit, I'm fine. Also: That sound — it's probably...

Francesca Royster, author and professor, reads in her office at DePaul University.

‘Choosing Family’ is a queer Chicago couple’s gentle, no-drama argument for redefining what it means to be accepted

February 27, 2023 at 5:30 a.m.

Every so often Francesca Royster hears someone in her neighborhood refer to their quaint slice of Rogers Park as "Shangri-La," as a kind of paradise, isolated and content and unchanging....

Sister Jean's personalized bobblehead doll on display at the Gentile Center on March 2, 2013. (Brian Cassella/baiduhai)

At 103, Sister Jean of Loyola University has a memoir: Shocking details? None. Gripes? Just one.

February 20, 2023 at 2:40 p.m.

Sister Jean of Loyola University, who stands atop Chicago's A-list of celebrity clergy, waited until she was 103 to write her memoir. Clearly, she didn't take the advice packed into...

"Hungry Tigress" by Jade Lee, published March 20, 2012.

As a professional romance novelist, she publishes books at a furious pace — it’s never enough

February 18, 2023 at 10:47 p.m.

This is a love story. But like many, it's long and lopsided. Kathy Lyons loves writing romance novels. And the romance novel industry — which claims a sizable percentage of...

Old television sets and VHS tapes are seen behind the bar as people relax at Alamo Drafthouse Cinema in Chicago's Wrigleyville neighborhood.

Alamo Drafthouse opens in Wrigleyville with plush chairs and a button for popcorn, tiptoeing into an uncertain moviegoing age

February 3, 2023 at 9:46 a.m.

The new Alamo Drafthouse Cinema in Wrigleyville, which opened softly last weekend, tiptoeing into an uncertain post-pandemic culture, arrives just as the movies are dying. Maybe. Probably. Look, I don't...

"Betonbuch" ("Concrete Book") by Wolf Vostell (1971) contains a copy of the looseleaf portfolio of his planned works inside concrete.

But is it a book? What if it’s encased in concrete? New UChicago exhibit asks just that question.

February 2, 2023 at 9:26 a.m.

Ever read "Betonbuch"? Don't look for it on Amazon. Only 100 copies exist. And actually, no one has read it. Not a single copy has even been cracked. Literally. The...

The MSI Mold-A-Rama exhibit featuring a small plastic figure of a pirate and others.

They’re warm. They stink. And they last forever. Celebrating Mold-A-Rama at the MSI.

January 26, 2023 at 5:45 a.m.

The world headquarters of Mold-A-Rama Inc. is tucked inside a colorless strip of businesses in Brookfield, the kind of block so forlorn it's hard to tell if anything is open...

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