Most people are lucky to have one act that hits. William Horberg is well into his third. Horberg was born in Chicago and grew up around Belmont and Broadway in the Lakeview neighborhood in the 60s and 70s. He ran a repertory movie theater called the Sandburg at the corner of Division and Dearborn from […]
Tag: television
Posted inSmall Screen
Expanding the universe of South Side
It’s been over two years since South Side debuted on Comedy Central and made many Black Chicagoans from the city laugh in a way that felt personal. Amongst the many dramas centering the violence and real disadvantages many south-siders face on television, South Side screened with a refreshing perspective that many folks from the south […]
Posted inArts & Culture
Parvesh Cheena invites you into his home
From a call center in India to the socially distant confines of video chat, he’s starred in television shows that have defined an era.
Posted inCity Life
The Reader’s stay-at-home chronicles: days 22 and 23
What we’re reading, watching, listening to, etc., to pass the time.
Posted inFilm
Six degrees of Abby McEnany
How a network of local creatives brought a queer, authentically Chicago story to Showtime.
Posted inFilm
Chicago webseries to watch now
A mockumentary about gardening, scenes from a hospital waiting room, and more streaming shows to binge this holiday season.
Posted inMusic
Piecing together the story of midwest punk’s great lost talent
Before he died at 24, Peter Laughner cofounded Rocket From the Tombs and Pere Ubu. Had he lived, he could’ve rivaled Patti Smith or Richard Hell—and a new box set shows why.
Posted inMusic
The tiny TV technicians arrive on the gig poster of the week
This week’s featured gig poster was designed by local musician, artist, and filmmaker Sean Whittaker for his band Kill Scenes.
Posted inFilm
In Rise and Fall of a Small Film Company, Jean-Luc Godard contemplates the transition from celluloid to video
Originally broadcast on French TV in 1986, it’s having a rare Chicago screening at the Siskel Center.
Posted inBlogs
Five big-screen movies obsessed with the small screen
Five movies remind us that filmmakers have always been fascinated with the box in the living room
Posted inBlogs
Pulitzer winner Mark Konkol to lead Chicago Reader
Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Mark Konkol is named executive editor of the Chicago Reader.
Posted inBlogs
Chicago jazz bassist Joe Policastro shares a love for film and TV themes on his new trio album
The Joe Policastro Trio’s Screen Sounds transforms score and soundtrack music with energetic imagination and a charmingly Catholic sensibility.
Posted inMusic
Pitchfork loves TV, so Pitchfork loves Survive
Survive’s retro horror-synth score for Stranger Things means they benefit from Pitchfork’s courtship of the prestige-television audience.
Posted inBest of Chicago
Crime Story is quintessential Chicago television
The short-lived 1980s police drama was created by Michael Mann and shot largely in Chicago.