- Performing Arts, Performing Arts Review, Sep 20, 2007
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Do the Right Thing
It's not easy for three generations of West Indian men in Elmina's Kitchen.
- Performing Arts, Performing Arts Sidebar, Jul 5, 2007
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Choreography, Meet Plot
For movement theater to succeed, you need a plot as strong as the moves.
- Performing Arts, Performing Arts Review, Feb 8, 2007
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A Story No One Wants to Hear
Sarah Kane's controversial 1995 debut makes its Chicago premiere.
- Lit & Lectures, Book Review, Jan 25, 2007
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Invisible America
What it's like, day by day, to be a Mexican Imigrant in the U.S.
- Lit & Lectures, Book Review, Nov 16, 2006
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A Daydream Nation
Greil Marcus is nostalgic for an America that was never more than a fantasy.
- Lit & Lectures, Book Review, Nov 2, 2006
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That's Not Funny
Comedian Amy Guth turns it on to plug a dark debut about women in trouble.
- Performing Arts, Performing Arts Review, Aug 10, 2006
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The Home Front
If you're going to put on a play about intra-Israeli conflicts when Israel is at war, it had better be good.
- Lit & Lectures, Book Review, Jul 27, 2006
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Beach Reading for the Bellicose
Three new nonfiction titles rake the diamond, legal, and drug industries over the coals.
- Performing Arts, Performing Arts Review, May 11, 2006
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DeLillo off the Page
The acclaimed novelist's new play might make a better book.
- Lit & Lectures, Book Review, Mar 2, 2006
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Are You There God? It's Me, Liz.
A cosmopolitan writer finds inner peace--and she's not embarrassed to talk about it.
- Galleries & Museums, Art Review, Dec 29, 2005
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Combating Cast-Off Culture
Artists' novel and attractive solutions to social and environmental issues
- Lit & Lectures, Book Review, Dec 29, 2005
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The Grandaddy of the Graphic Novel
A year after his death, Will Eisner finally gets some respect.
- Lit & Lectures, Book Review, Dec 1, 2005
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America After Dark
If you want to understand racism in this country, you need to look at the places black people don't live.
- Lit & Lectures, Book Review, Nov 10, 2005
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Your Band Could Be Their Life
Brian Costello's first novel is about what happens after that fateful show.
- Lit & Lectures, Book Review, Oct 13, 2005
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Beyond Bluto
If you want the gory details, read Bob Woodward's Belushi bio. But if you want to get to know the lovable lug behind the bedsheet, pick up his widow's new oral history.
- Lit & Lectures, Book Review, Aug 18, 2005
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Radical Tweak
Christopher Sorrentino takes liberties with the Patty Hearst story to get at the truth of why the revolution died.
- Galleries & Museums, Art Sidebar, Mar 17, 2005
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Dollhouses of Death
A photo exhibit in her childhood home gives a glimpse of Frances Glessner Lee's remarkably precise models of crime scenes.
- Performing Arts, Performing Arts Sidebar, Mar 17, 2005
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What's in It for Us?
Nine Words: "Performance of Sleep in One Long Act Without Intermission"
- Galleries & Museums, Art Review, Feb 24, 2005
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We Are What We Own
Exhibits at the MCA and the Museum of Contemporary Photography examine how what we amass affects who we become and what we see.
- Lit & Lectures, Book Review, Feb 17, 2005
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Wishful History
Mother Jones founder Adam Hochschild wants very badly for the legacy of the abolitionists to belong to the left.
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