Arts & Living

“Markus Raetz,” sponsored by the Art Club of Chicago, is a multimedia exhibition by one of Switzerland’s most respected artists. The exhibit will showcase a variety of Raetz’s work, including figurative, still-life and landscape subjects exploring perspective, optical illusions and more. (Tues. thru Fri., 11 a.m.

Case in point: Has Smith ever made a movie that’s funnier or more profound than “Clerks” (1994)? This was the first film Smith ever made-and when I say “first,” I mean it literally. Smith dropped out of Vancouver Film School after one semester, and he was only 22

After entering the spotlight with teenage excitement, Johnston quickly plunged into a solemnly focused demeanor, any trace of personality emerging only briefly after each song. The Freedy fans in the crowd snatched it up hungrily, mirroring Johnston’s attitudes by oscillating between listening intently and enthusiastically laughing at not-so-

As laborious and emotionally complex as this process usually is, I found it astoundingly easy, as it was on sale for $12.99 and only took up approximately an hour of my time. Not moving from my bed, I lay with my eyes closed tightly, mercifully alone and immersed in

Radiohead kicked off my summer by releasing “Amnesiac.” A return to their roots? Hardly. Thom Yorke and company still can’t keep their hands off the electronics, and we still have a few tracks that are, in all honesty, electronic gibberish. But unlike its predecessor, “Kid A,” the songcraft on

Faithful summer viewers, however, braved the mediocrity and made their way to ticket counters across America to sift through the dreck of this average cinematic season. Some films were a pleasant surprise. Some films were anything but. And some-well some were just entertaining. And now, without further ado, The