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It’s another jam-packed weekend in August with plenty of fantastic events for you to enjoy. From zines to classical music to beer to fine art, there is something for everyone […] The post Your Chicago Curated Weekend: 8/20 and Beyond appeared first on Third Coast Review .
I’ve been lucky enough to have experienced Modest Mouse‘s live performance several times before. Even luckier is that every instance has felt completely different. Two of those shows were full […] The post Review: Modest Mouse and Califone Treat the Salt Shed to Some Stellar Songs appeared first on Third Coast Review .
Though we live in a world inundated with movie marketing, from trailers to social media to brand partnerships and even customized popcorn buckets at the movie theater, I’m a firm […] The post Review: Polish Auteur Agnieszka Holland Creates a World of Past and Present, Literature and History in <em>Franz</em> appeared first on Third Coast Review .
It may seem strange that the question of Abraham Lincoln and religion is a “thing” in historical circles, as Ferenc Morton Szasz details in Lincoln and Religion, newly published in paperback. […] The post Review: A Man of Spiritual Complexity and Frontier Tenacity, <em>Lincoln and Religion</em>, by Ferenc Morton Szasz with Margaret Connell Szasz appeared first on Third Coast Review .
Last weekend was the first stage of the E-Day beta, and it was *sizable.* Getting both PvP and PvE modes in a single beta is something that I haven’t seen […] The post Review: <em>Gears of War: E-Day</em> Beta—Killing Grubs and Crushing Bugs appeared first on Third Coast Review .
To close an excellent 2026 season at Millennium Park’s Jay Pritzker Pavilion on Friday and Saturday evenings, artistic director Giancarlo Guerrero programmed the Grant Park Orchestra and Chorus to start […] The post Review: Giancarlo Guerrero Closes Grant Park Music Festival with Wolfe, Daugherty, and Beethoven’s Best appeared first on Third Coast Review .
For thousands of years, in every inhabited place across the globe, bars have been a special space. People gather in these moodily lit places to drink, of course, but also […] The post Review: <em>Resentment</em> Musters Up Meaning in the Bar Scene appeared first on Third Coast Review .
The Chicago International Film Festival has been hosting a series of free screenings all summer called “On the Road,” featuring foreign films that pay homage to the “road movie.” On […] The post Review: <em>The Son and the Sea</em> Paints a Tender Portrait of Masculinity appeared first on Third Coast Review .
Filmmaker Jane Schoenbrun burst onto the indie film scene in early 2021 with We’re All Going to the World’s Fair, a wholly unique thriller that announced a new talent on […] The post Review: Gillian Anderson and Hannah Einbinder Star in <em>Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma</em>, a Weird, Wild Commentary on Horror Films, Hollywood and More appeared first on Third Coast Review .
Long before Elon Musk started ruining everything, like renaming Twitter as X, that 24th letter signified the seminal punk folk band called X. In 1979, Chicago native Exene Cervenka (also […] The post Review: Exene Cervenka and John Doe Are Right at Home at Old Town School of Folk Music appeared first on Third Coast Review .
