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Sheila Chandra ABoneCroneDrone (Real World) (star) (star) After the stunning "The Zen Kiss," this new release by Chandra is a disappointment. Where "The Zen Kiss" put Chandra's startling and dramatic...

Teachers are talent's midwives. They can't make a dancer out of someone with two left feet or singers out of the tone deaf, but they are absolute necessities for people...

They're a great idea, a win-win -- and as far as marketing ploys go, super-successful: the "First Friday" program at the Museum of Contemporary Art and the Art Institute of...

It's nearly impossible to avoid comparing "A Perfect Candidate," a disturbing but illuminating new documentary about Oliver North's 1994 Senate campaign in Virginia, with "The War Room," the Academy Award-nominated...

Mexican pop singer Luis Miguel has more gold and platinum records than he can probably count at this point. Yet most Americans -- if they've heard of him at all...

Sunday nights, the Abbey Pub buzzes and hums with the sounds of pipes and fiddles, drums and small accordion-like boxes. Its a rousing music, rich with Irish tradition. The players...

The Democrats return to Chicago. Big yawn, at least as far as some of Chicago's most prominent avant-garde spaces are concerned. Randolph Street Gallery is hosting a community arts forum,...

Think of it as a kind of modern version of "The Shop Around the Corner," the 1939 film in which Jimmy Stewart and Margaret Sullivan played shopkeepers who hate each...

Dennis Cooper's dark, dense novel "Frisk" -- the source material for Todd Verow's film of the same name -- is a hallucinatory first-person narrative, a story that takes place inside...

Edward Thomas-Herrera loves fantasy and invention. So he knew he was wading into dangerous waters when he decided to launch an autobiographical show. Not that he hadn't done shows before...