C2E2: Our 9 best bets for 2024, from people-watching to prom
This weekend's Chicago Comic & Entertainment Expo is proof that fans still want their geek gatherings live and in-person. Our list of what not to miss.
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It Came from Wisconsin: A chat with James Tynion IV, the reigning king of comic book horror
His work includes very of-the-moment comics about federal conspiracy (“The Department of Truth”) and world apocalypse (“The Nice House on the Lake”).
Review: Magnetic Fields plays ’69 Love Songs’ at Thalia Hall, a long and epic romance
It’s asking a lot of an audience of a certain age — ahem — to return two nights in a row for one performance. Specifically, a performance of a masterwork...
Column: As ‘Tortured Poets Department’ arrives, we wondered: Can Taylor Swift be poetry?
It goes back to debates about Dylan — actually much earlier. It has special roots in Chicago's own blend of slam poetry and songwriting. What's a song, and what's a...
Column: ‘Shame of Chicago, Shame of the Nation’ on WTTW lays bare a city’s history of housing discrimination
What this series brings to the history of Chicago and social justice is a terrible clarity at a time when at least half the country refuses to accept structural racism.
With ‘James,’ Percival Everett may now be America’s greatest living author — and its hardest interview
The story is told by Mark Twain's character of Jim. “I think people assume because I am revisiting Twain, I am correcting. I love Twain’s novel."
The most infamous serial killers all seem to have something in common — they’re from the Midwest
The Midwest seems to draw out such darkness. Just read Adam Rapp's new book "Wolf at the Table" and Cynthia Pelayo’s “Forgotten Sisters." That's just for starters.
Brett Gelman spoke in Glencoe about his book — as well as about all the protesters that have shut down his book tour
The actor from Highland Park spoke to an audience that included folks who attended his bar mitzvah. His book of semi-autobiographical essays wasn't the main topic of the night.
Tim Robinson’s ‘I Think You Should Leave’ tour is guests, unaired sketches and the occasional awkward moment — just like the show
What’s made the Netflix show an instant classic is how deftly it reveals the terms of agreement for merely getting through a day.
Do they still make pinball machines? They do, in a huge new factory near O’Hare — with most selling to the 1 percent
Machines cost thousands of dollars and Stern Pinball says it can't keep up with orders. Chicago's century-old pinball heritage may yet avoid permanent tilt.