Carcosa is a mysterious fictional city first named by author Ambrose Bierce in 1886 and later alluded to in Robert W. Chambers’s influential and evocative King in Yellow stories. As the ancient and possibly cursed capital of an alien place that’s impossible to pinpoint on earthly maps, it’s been incorporated into the works of H.P. […]
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Chicago Humanities Festival wants you to feel powerful
This season’s lineup focuses on harnessing the strength within.
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Barangaroos is as American as Aussie pie
Australian-style savory hand pies tell no lies, but may harbor some secrets.
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It’s the end of the world as we know it, and Avengers: Endgame feels fine
Like sands through the hourglass, so are the superheroes of our lives.
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Chicago Underground Film Festival: The Shorts
Reader critics assess eight short works screening in the festival’s 25th edition, through Sunday at the Logan.
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Behind the gory scenes of Splatter Theater
The Annoyance’s savagely funny 30-year-old slasher spoof is a triumph of a certain schlocky stagecraft.
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Advice for the broken-hearted—and for those sick of hearing about it
Dan Savage dispenses some tough love.
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Game of Thrones wrap party, Noir City film festival, Fringe Fest, and more of the best things to do in Chicago this week
Yas Queen! at the Playground, Joseph Chilliams at Schubas, and more happenings August 28-31
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Cheers Live, Dog Night, The Happiest Place on Earth, and nine more new theater reviews
The latest Chicago stage shows range from the rawly emotional to the enjoyably ridiculous.
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Ayn Rand in Love, Thrones! A Musical Parody, and eight more new stage shows
An incongruous musical and a Game of Thrones spoof are among this week’s highlights.
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Add this to your list of newspaper cliches: push
The press has turned push into a Three Bears sort of action verb.
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Is nerd culture even a thing anymore? Scenes from C2E2 2015
Nerd culture goes mainstream at the annual comic con.
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‘I want to learn from this guy’—Iliana Regan appoints chef de cuisine at Elizabeth
Iliana Regan kicks herself upstairs and names a San Francisco-trained chef the chef de cuisine of Elizabeth.
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The Hammer Trinity is a nine-hour fantasy epic that feels surprisingly short
The House Theatre of Chicago’s fantasy epic The Hammer Trinity is thrilling and thought-provoking—even if you don’t like fantasy.
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Nerd alert: Geek culture gets its own clip show
Wil Wheaton weeds through TV and the Internet on his promising new SyFy show, The Wil Wheaton Project.