Whenever an artist performs better live than their studio music sounds, it is almost immediately bound to be an entertaining show. Thankfully, Australian artist AViVA’s…
REVIEW: AViVA is exemplary of cut-and-paste alt-pop 
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‘Mean Girls’ in Chicago: How the second city is making ‘fetch’ happen
Maggie Mitchell, director and playwright of “Mean Girlz Parody,” which ran in Chicago’s Second City Theatre in October, was about to take a picture of…
The Weeknd Rocks Sold Out United Center
Currently on his first-ever, sold-out arena tour, Toronto-born Abel Tesfaye, aka The Weeknd, brought his The Madness Fall Tour to the United Center on Friday. Tesfaye is…
Twin Peaks and White Reaper Play Secret Show on Hallow’s Eve
Chicago band Twin Peaks and Kentucky locals White Reaper played a secret show on Friday, October 30th, at a DIY venue in Chicago named Canvas.…
First-Person Obsession: Action Cameras Better, More Affordable in 2015
Action cameras — tiny, durable, personal cameras that shoot high-speed, low light action scenes — are not just for X-treme sports types anymore. The current cultural…
Film Review: Mortdecai – Not the High Point of Johnny Depp’s Career
There is a golden rule in acting when performing comedy. Never act funny. Don’t let the audience know you are in on the joke. You play…
Silent Film Society of Chicago
Charlie Chaplin, Greta Garbo, Rudolph Valentino and Lillian Gish. For today’s younger movie fans those names may not mean much, but during the silent film…
No Good Deed Movie, No Good
Predictable and cheesy are two words that can describe the movie No Good Deed. Or you could simply say it’s a no good movie. But…