Why we need to talk about porn

May. 22, 2013
A new movement of academics is attempting to challenging our cultural phobia of sex the best way they know how: education.

'Battling Pornography' documents the rise and fall of feminist anti-porn movement

Nov. 1, 2011
The growth of the commercial sex industry in the 1970s resulted in a proliferation of sexually explicit images of women.

'A Labor of Love' peeks behind the scenes of a Chicago porn film

Nov. 1, 2011
Last week, Eight Forty-Eight looked at the business end of modern pornography by taking the pulse of Playboy Enterprises. Tuesday, Eight Forty-Eight revisited a conversation about some pornography closer to home.

Daily Rehearsal: Get ready for October, and lots of free theater

Aug. 31, 2011
1. Steep's show Pornography is being extended for two weeks through September 17th, but everything else is the same; shows Thursday, Friday, and Saturdays at 8pm.

Critics' theater picks

Aug. 4, 2011
Jonathan Abarbanel is out this week, but Kelly Kleiman is in -- with double the picks!Kelly KleimanThis is the last weekend for Fillet of Solo, Lifeline Theatre's showcase of solo performers.

Rhys Darby of 'Flight of the Conchords' lands in Chicago

Jul. 27, 2011
1. Pornography opens this weekend from Steep, and before you get all hot and bothered, it's not really all about that. It's more about a terrorist attack in the U.K. in 2005.

Critics theater picks; 'Pornography', 'Bigger!' and being a 'Side Man'

Jul. 21, 2011
Kelly KleimanFirst up: site-specific work from the side project, whose theater is so minute that any other venue must seem palatial.

Book explores life and times of gay pioneer Samuel Steward

Dec. 1, 2010
The talents of Samuel Steward were as varied as the pseudonyms he employed. Under different names, Steward worked in Chicago as an academic, a tattoo artist and a writer of literature and pornography.