Steve Johnson
Mild weather, mellow vibe as DMB Caravan begins - July 8, 2011 - With some wood chips covering the rocky ground, food tents and music stages erected around the perimeter and a ferris wheel rolling slowly at the entrance, the temporary transformation was complete.
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Chris Jones
Hannibal Buress: Taking no prisoners - July 10, 2011 - COMEDY REVIEW: A compelling cocktail of listlessness underpinned by anger on slow burn at Zanies. ✭✭✭ 1/2
Julia Keller
Novel puts reporter amid international skullduggery - July 8, 2011 - When your 5-year-old daughter wants to play "I Spy" and says, "I spy with my little eye ..." and decides that her mystery object starts with a "B," and then she points to a bar — one of the iron bars on the door of a jail cell — you know you're in a pickle.
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Rick Kogan
There's no rush to leave a good tavern - July 8, 2011 - It is never a good idea to ask a man or woman what he or she is doing drinking in a tavern at 4 p.m. on a sunny Tuesday.
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Greg Kot
Dave Matthews Band Caravan: Everything you need to know - July 7, 2011 - Just when it seemed Chicago was jam-packed with summer festivals, a strange confluence of bedfellows – rival promoters Jam Productions and Live Nation, several South Side aldermen, and jam-band kingpin Dave Matthews – got together earlier this year and decided to stage another one on a...
Nina Metz
2 indies embrace Chicago's seedier side - July 7, 2011 - "Hello all hucksters, all hoodlums, all politicians, all crooks, all gadflies, all con artists, all gamblers, all second-story men, all floosies, tramps, trollops, dolls, all has-beens, all sob-sisters, all dropouts, burnouts, bums, stoolies, rummies, junkies, pimps, hookers, whores, priests...
Michael Phillips
'Project Nim' a fascinating story of an experiment gone wrong - July 8, 2011 - The devilishly talented British director James Marsh made "Man on Wire," a marvelous documentary blending archival footage and sly reenactments about the French wire-walker who, in 1974, stunned the world by inching his way across a metal strand illegally strung between the unfinished towers of...
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Howard Reich
Ramsey Lewis lifts the curtain on his newest work: 'Colors' - July 8, 2011 - In recent years, Chicago pianist-composer Ramsey Lewis has penned ambitious works exploring epic themes such as love ("To Know Her …") and American racial history ("Proclamation of Hope").
John von Rhein
At Ravinia, Voigt falls short of past vocal glories - July 10, 2011 - One of the inalienable rights of being an operatic diva is being able to call your musical shots just about anywhere. Take Deborah Voigt, for example.
Dean Richards
Kevin James takes on feathered, furry - July 8, 2011 - LOS ANGELES — He went from stand-up comedy to bona fide TV star to starring in a string of successful full-length feature comedies. In his latest, "Zookeeper," Kevin James, the former "King of Queens," takes on the "king of the jungle" and other feathered and furry friends. We spoke recently...