Since most football players are beasts, we had fun using animal band names in this list—a trend in the music industry! SUPER BOWL Let the Rumpus Begin 1. Laredo by Band of Horses 2. Location by Freelance Whales 3. Cannibal Queen by Miniature Tigers 4. 8 4 8 by Young Mammals 5. Coronado by […]
Legendary children’s musician Ella Jenkins recently released a new album and performs in Chicago on February 6. Her new album, “ Life of Song,” offers stories and songs that speak to her years growing up as an African-American child in multicultural Chicago. Jenkins recently sat down with Make It Better to talk about her new […]
“Sex with Strangers,” a play about a 30-something woman dating a 24-year-old guy, is a libidinous, funny exploration of the Internet generation.
You’ve probably seen Shakespeare reinterpreted a hundred ways: transported settings (modern day Berlin), interpretive costumes (Macbeth in Armani), but Claudio as a rap star?much “Funk It Up About Nothin’ ” is definitely a new twist on “Much Ado About Nothing.” Playing in the intimate upstairs theater at the Chicago Shakespeare Theater through Feb. 13, this […]
“The Trinity River Plays,” which premiered Jan. 24, is a beautifully realized play about family betrayal and family love—about the roots and wrongs that hold people together or wrest them apart. Three related dramas by Regina Taylor introduce us to Iris on her 17th birthday. The occasion coincides with the arrival of the 17-year locust, […]
One thing is for sure: Music motivates you. It can excite, stimulate, focus or calm you. That’s why you see ear buds everywhere—on Olympic athletes, morning runners, commuters, travelers, students and nappers. The type of music sets the stage, whether it’s pump up jams, dance tunes, theme songs, holiday carols, world music, tribal beats or […]
Puccini’s opera “The Girl of the Golden West” is a real Western—the “True Grit” of its day—packed with the good, the bad and the ugly aspects of the American frontier. The show is set in the Sierra Mountains of California during the Gold Rush of 1849 and has a golden voice at its center. American […]
Have you ever daydreamed about breaking into show business while shuttling your kids to soccer practice or during another late night at the office? Well, meet two North Shore women who have made their dream come true. Lauren Taslitz of Winnetka and Leigh Anna Reichenbach of Wilmette are the writers and producers behind “Join the […]
The audience at the Bank of America Theatre got a welcome dose of warm country sunshine on Jan. 19, as well as an in-person visit from the country legend herself.
Evanston natives Laura Eason and Jessica Thebus aren’t shy when it comes to talking about what goes on under the sheets. Eason and Thebus are the brains behind the new Steppenwolf play, “Sex with Strangers.” Eason wrote the play, which focuses on a 24-year-old male blogger who writes about his “sexcapades,” including his affair with […]
