The Holy Fuck, A Place To Bury Strangers, and Airiel show this coming Sunday at Schubas sold out quite a while ago, but we've got a pair of tickets to give away to some lucky Chicagoist reader. more ›

We’re dusting off our roller skates and sprinkling some glitter on them. We’re going to a place where nobody dared to go. The love. The echos of long ago. You need the world to know They are in Xanadu. Tonight, one night only, it’s Sing-along Xanadu at the Music Box Theatre for the midnight movie. Start warming up your vocal cords while practicing backwards, forward, and couples. more ›

We were surprised to see that Woody Allen’s film “Matchpoint” didn’t win for best original screenplay. Oh wait, no we weren’t, because much of Allen’s film was taken from one of the greatest Chicago books of all time, “An American Tragedy” by Theodore Dreiser. Even Dreiser based his novel on the true story of Chester Gillette and Grace Brown. more ›

Punk rock manager and band wrangler Danny Fields once said “when the music moves from the music section to the front page of the newspaper, you’re in trouble.” By that measure, R. Kelly’s been in trouble for a while. But there was good news for him in both sections of the papers this week. more ›