What are you supposed to think about a place where the main entrée is overcooked, the dessert is undercooked and everything else on the fixed menu is hit or miss? When it comes to Anteprima’s annual “Summer in Puglia” $95-a-head party, you call it a thoroughly enjoyable experience; even though the food didn’t turn out …
Summer in Chicago usually means live music spilling out of parks, swirling through neighbor streets and rising from stages set up on hotel rooftops and assorted cultural and commercial patios; as well as in standard music forward venues. Ravinia, that grand dame of outdoor entertainment is in full swing for the summer but some of …
Ride Share, a thrillingly beautiful work written by Reginald Edmund and co-produced by Glencoe’s Writer’s Theatre and Black Lives, Black Words International Project, doesn’t pull its punches. Using the playwright’s personal experience as a Uber driver in our hyper-gig economy, Ride Share can legitimately be called autobiographical. But within minutes of the first lines being …
As we move further and further away from the isolating days of the Covid-driven lockdown, the more likely we are to forget some of the things that got us through those long often anxious days. Work and school filled a lot of voids but there were few options for activating crucial endorphins that result in …
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Confusing cartoons and comics should probably be expected. The first are supposed to be funny. But even though humor is synonymous with the word “comic”, the comics don’t have laughter as part of their mandate. In popular culture, they’re simply “a series of illustrations in sequence” with no requirement to be either funny or political. …