I get the appeal of a series like “Jurassic World” on a conceptual level. The first film, directed with grace by Steven Speilberg off an airtight script written by Michael Crichton and David Koepp,...

In the early hours of the morning, Stacey Greene unlocks the doors to Park Bait, a green wood-paneled shack at Montrose Point. She files past long, shallow tanks filled with minnows and crawfish, making...

In recent years, Jean Baptiste Pointe DuSable has been known by many titles. He is called the first non-Native resident of the Chicagoland area, Chicago’s founder and Chicago’s Black "father.” Most...

On May 15, the curtain opened in DePaul’s Merle Reskin Theatre for the last first show of a few The Theatre School seniors. “The Chronicles of the Kaleidoscope Visitors,” which ran through May 31,...

The contrast of the soft vocals and guitar of Anna Shoemaker versus the upbeat, pop sounds of Mallrat (also known as Grace Shaw), came together to create one exciting show at Lincoln Hall on Friday, May...

Joe Goldberg has stalked, manipulated and murdered his way through five seasons of the television show “You,” but on social media, he’s just misunderstood. Or worse: desirable. Scroll through TikTok...

While scrolling through TikTok, many Americans find themselves drooling over videos of the high-quality foods that Japanese 7-Elevens offer their customers. Spreads including fresh sandwiches, sushi rolls...

If you’ve been around the Chicago theater scene, you’ve likely heard the name Ike Holter — typically followed by heaps of praise.  Holter, a DePaul graduate and celebrated playwright, rose to...

DePaul was alive with costumes, craft goods and concerts when DIBScon — the university’s annual cosplay and pop culture convention — took over the Student Center on May 24.  A costume contest...

Every weekend since 1988, a group of performers in Andersonville, Chicago, step onto a small stage and race against the clock to perform 30 original plays in 60 minutes. That show, called “The Infinite...