The Second Watch is a weekly Game of Thrones recap column by Focus Editor Erin Yarnall. Vengeance motivates a lot of characters in "Game of Thrones." This is especially meaningful to the remaining...

Board games have been making a return to popularity as a more social face-to-face alternative. Despite the increase in digital and online media, all around the Chicago area board game shops and bars...

Over the last few years, Chicago violence has served as an inspiration for a significant number of documentaries. The bloody homicides and gang shootings that happen almost daily on the city’s South...

“That was awesome!” People cheered as the credits for White Mystery’s debut full-length film “That Was Awesome” rolled across the screen. The project, which boasted five different short stories,...

Out with the old and in with the new.  It seems these days the “old-fashioned” pedometer just doesn’t cut it with fitness gurus.  Activity trackers, otherwise known as fitness bands or fitness...

It isn’t easy exercising a green thumb between a two-flat and paved paradise. For many Chicagoans who rent an apartment without a backyard, this often means forgoing gardening, leaving farming to...

We did the homework so you don't have to. Check back each week for the scoop on bands you can't miss at Pitchfork, Lollapalooza, North Coast and Riot Fest this year. Bully Sometimes the bands...

Many critics in the past several months have come out criticizing the popular EDM proliferating a sexist culture. “Skrillex keeps putting butts in my Twitter feed,” Pitchfork critic Philip Sherburne...

I’ve said it once and I’ll say it again: 2015 is shaping up to be a great year in music. But being an omnivorous music aficionado and a grossly overcommitted senior means that sometimes pesky things...

It was a bacon lover’s dream. Donuts and popcorn with bacon sprinkles set side-by-side with bacon-wrapped onion rings. Bacon-infused bourbon and fried pickles were followed by pork-stuffed Bao, bacon...

The Second Watch is a weekly Game of Thrones recap column by Focus Editor Erin Yarnall. There’s a tradition on "Game of Thrones" of pairing duos that fans love to watch — Arya and the Hound,...