Sad to say that once again this year the Chicagoist business office has refused to front us the money to attend Sundance. And we were really looking forward to mingling with Robert, Ethan, Maggie, and Ellen over a few bottles of organic champagne. Oh well. As consolation we'll head over to the Music Box. more ›

A few days ago we unwittingly created a monster when we expressed our frustration about having to wait to see the schedule for this year's Chicago International Film Festival, which runs October 4-17. Well, we finally have a copy of said schedule in our hot little hands. What follows is a very brief, cursory summary of what you can expect this year (the full schedule will be online within the next few days). Regardless of... more ›

Interview: Milk at Midnight more ›

In case you haven’t noticed, Chicagoist has become slightly obsessed with the enigma that is Scott Fawell. First we were scared when he took us back to college with his cocky frat boy routine, then we felt sad when we found out his admiration of George Ryan was not being reciprocated, and now we have been confronted with the love struck Romeo act. Yesterday, during his fourth day of testimony in the corruption trial... more ›

The Roger Ebert of local pop music critics, Jim DeRogatis brings his love for unadulterated, three-chord rawk every week to the Sun-Times and Sound Opinions, "the world's only rock 'n' roll talk show" – on WXRT on the radio dial and WTTW on the tube. He's an opinionated free spirit in the tradition of his idol Lester "the uncool" Bangs (a.k.a. Philip Seymour Hoffman in Almost Famous), whom he immortalized in the biography Let It Blurt. more ›