Dan Jakes

2 months ago | frommers.com | Dan Jakes

A blessing and a curse for travelers to and from Boston is that the city’s international airport is pretty much smack-dab in the middle of the action. Buttressed against the Atlantic Ocean, the entirety of downtown and the greater metropolitan area radiates in a circle from Boston Logan. Not coincidentally, the city has some of the worst traffic congestion in the country—and even the world, according to a study released this summer by INRIX and reported by Boston.com.

2 months ago | chicagoreader.com | Dan Jakes

In hindsight, it really is remarkable the extent to which Trap Door Theatre’s style of sociopolitical discourse was ahead of the curve in the U.S. When I first started seeing this long-running avant-garde company’s work more than a decade ago, their chaotic, breathless ravings about capitalism and socialism and labor actions and communism and state corruption and sexual currency felt like a historical appreciation or a radical outlier—now, that list could apply to most social media threads.

Jan 22, 2025 | chicagoreader.com | Dan Jakes

When it comes to classic stories being fit for undergoing a hop-hop remix, you could do a lot worse than The Prince and the Pauper, Mark Twain’s 1881 children’s novel about a highborn heir to the throne undergoing a switcheroo with an impoverished doppelgänger to see how the other half lives. Kid Prince and PabloThrough 2/16: Fri 7:30 PM, Sat 2:30 and 7:30 PM, Sun 2:30 PM; touch tour and audio description Sun 1/26, open captions Sun 2/2; Lifeline Theatre, 6912 N.

Dec 13, 2024 | frommers.com | Dan Jakes

“The first thing out of my mouth was ‘triumph,’” raved Scott Gairdner, host of Podcast: The Ride, following his first visit to Casa Bonita, the famed Denver-area Mexican restaurant/family-entertainment paradise best known as the subject of a classic South Park episode.

Nov 27, 2024 | chicagoreader.com | Dan Jakes

Even when it’s hosting a night of spook-ems, there’s something cozy and reassuring about walking into Jarvis Square Theater, the long-standing pint-sized Rogers Park blackbox within earshot of the Jarvis Red Line stop. In purpose and scale, it’s always felt like a bit of a sandbox, and one of the lowkey but crucial incubators for the vast Chicago theater ecosystem.     Jump Scares, Vol. 1Through 12/8: Thu-Sat 7:30 PM, Sun 3 PM (no shows 11/28–12/1); Jarvis Square Theater, 1439 W.