Q&A With Greg Kot and Jim DeRogatis
Jim DeRogatis and Greg Kot, hosts of Chicago Public Radio’s “Sound Opinions,” the only rock ‘ n’ roll talk show ...
Arts & Culture
Super Mario Musical Thesis Brings Plumber Into Reality
My mind is transported back to Wednesday at the WestCo café. The all-holy national anthem of the Nintendo generation lurched ...
Event Preview: Independent Filmmaker Speaker Series
Spring means independent cinema this month at the Center for Film Studies.
Breaking Artist Profile: “Pony Pony Run Run”
Though their choice of band name is pretty absurd, this synth-pop trio from Angers (that’s in France, geography buffs) follows ...
The Idiot Box: The Real Avatar
Back in my hometown (shout out to my Boston peeps…who are actually IN Boston and not around it, fakers) I ...
Playwright Catherine Filloux on Genocide, Surviving, and Hope
Catherine Filloux has a good reason to be serious: she has spent the last two decades writing plays that center ...
The Cine-Files
I know, I know. I’m wasting my time here.
Backstage Pass: “The Vagina Monologues”
The seminal play “The Vagina Monologues,” by Eve Ensler, runs Friday at 8 p.m. and Saturday at 3 p.m. and ...
Punk Bands Rock Out at DKE
This weekend at DKE, a spectacle unlike anything recently seen at Wes (and we know our spectacles) will go down: ...
The Mystery (and Mayhem) of “Irma Vep”
Here at the University, theses about drag queens are no surprise. A thesis performance in drag, on the other hand, ...