Kris Vire

Chicago’s “I Voted!” Sticker

An hourlong wait at the Broadway Armory, but it’s done.

Just got a sketchy-feeling cold call asking if we’d be interested in selling our condo for a cash offer. Is this a normal thing?

Marisa Tomei as Mona Lisa Vito on the witness stand in My Cousin Vinny

Tonight’s first-time viewing. She earned that Oscar.

Why Do a Joker Musical If You Don’t Want to Do a Joker Musical? Todd Phillips, a one-time purveyor of boys-will-be-boys frat comedies, can’t seem to embrace the flamboyance of the genre.

For Vulture, I picked a bone with JOKER: FOLIE A DEUX's timidity as a song-and-dance spectacle. Why do the Joker musical if you don't want to do the Joker musical? www.vulture.com/article/why-...

A Corny Story That Really Pops: How a Chicago Family Has Been Feeding America's Snack Obsession For More Than A Century Americans eat a lot of popcorn. Consumption is nationwide, and even worldwide, but popcorn is strongly associated with Chicago. The Popcorn Board is even based in Chicago. But the real connection is C...

Love this Newcity story on how the history of Popcorn Innovations runs right through Chicago.

A group of women dressed in red form a circle around the guest of honor, who is dressed in white with a ceremonial red cloak. Men form a larger circle of support around the outside, but do not participate.

The run-of-show for the cronening ceremony.

Today a group of friends put on a “cronening” ceremony on the beach to mark one of my oldest and dearest’s welcome transition into menopause.

I have some pretty great friends.

RIP to my namesake.

a cheerleader wears a blue uniform with the letter s on it Alt: Chappell Roan, wearing a blue and yellow cheerleader uniform and holding pompoms, leads a routine in the music video for “Hot to Go”

I must be the last Chicago person to have this realization but C-H-I-C-A-G-O maps perfectly onto the chorus of “Hot to Go” and now it’s all I can think of

Spent the last several days walking around Greenpoint Brooklyn and playing “point out all the dudes who could populate a Jack Antonoff lookalike contest” like it was Slug-Bug

The Playbill for “Stereophonic” at the John Golden Theatre

Rumour has it this is a good one.

The first new print edition of The Onion

Gosh I love print media.

The Best of Fall The 10 cultural events you won't want to miss this season.

Chicago magazine’s fall culture package is here: Nine writers (including yours truly) on 10 artists and creators with projects worth your attention. Check it out here or in the October print issue.

Just got served a poll about Chicago’s inaugural school board election and discovered that I — a pretty darn civically engaged guy! — know nothing about any of the four candidates in our district. Didn’t recognize a single name! Not great!

Took a nap and dreamed that I was trying to find a mid-century boulevard comedy to put on with cats. Like, casting actual cats in the play. There was a guidebook full of forgotten titles, all presumably suited for cat-daptation.

My Uber driver is listening to a podcast at 3.0x and I can’t imagine actually gleaning anything from this

I HAVE CONCEPTS OF A PLAN LMAOOOOOOOOO

Just imagine being a normie voter trying to understand any goddamn thing he’s talking about

This man’s neural connectors are just circling the drain

At the risk of manifesting them on this website: It’s gotta be the Oxfordians, who insist that Shakespeare was too low-class to be the actual author of Shakespeare’s works.

Cool. Now, are there enough theater critics and journalists on here for somebody to populate a starter pack?

Hey fellow nerds: Is there a particularly favored English translation of “War and Peace”? I might have a wild hair to try and read the whole thing in the two weeks before I see “Natasha, Pierre, and the Great Comet of 1812.”

Adding my mid-’90s stints running the register at Chick-fil-A and folding jeans at JCPenney to my LinkedIn profile because I have nothing to hide

September Agenda Top 10 reasons to fill up your calendar this month.

Cool new festivals in Evanston and Grant Park, a Newberry survey of Indigenous art, and a ricocheting Riot Fest — find all that and more in my September roundup for Chicago magazine. www.chicagomag.com/chicago-maga...

Just came across one of my top five most insufferable former coworkers on here and it appears they’ve somehow become even more dreadfully self-righteous

Every right-wing white man complaining about spice jokes should prove their point by ordering off the secret menu at their nearest Thai place. Make them eat on camera.

Wild to realize that there are still working PR professionals who think that “earned media” is what you get in return for buying ads.

Riot Fest will return to Douglass Park for its 2024 festival By Doug George August 14 at 4:03 PM CT Riot Fest is moving back to Douglass Park for its annual music festival in September. According to an announcement Wednesday from Riot Fest organizers, Ald. Monique Scott (24th), the City of Chicago and the Chicago Park District, the decision was "pending provisional approval by the Park District Board next month," but that all parties were in favor of the festival's return. Wednesday's surprise came after a calamitous couple of months that saw the music festival announce in June it would depart its longtime home in the North Lawndale neighborhood and move to the campus of Seat-Geek Stadium in southwest suburban Bridgeview.

Oh, so Riot Fest was jerking everyone around this whole time? Shocking.

Sorry to sincere-post but I am so freaking hyped for this ticket

Tater tot hot dish for one and all!

reminded that Phil Collins initially wasn't happy at all with his famous drum break in In The Air Tonight and re-recorded it using longer drumsticks to get a distinctive sound, a decision that had far-reaching repercussions