Kris Vire
@krisvire.bsky.social
Arts + culture writer guy for hire. Native Arkansan, naturalized Chicagoan. Rhymes with fire.
An hourlong wait at the Broadway Armory, but it’s done.
October 29, 2024 at 11:04 PM
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?
October 28, 2024 at 4:39 PM
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?
Tonight’s first-time viewing. She earned that Oscar.
October 20, 2024 at 3:33 AM
Tonight’s first-time viewing. She earned that Oscar.
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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-...
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.
www.vulture.com
October 11, 2024 at 5:26 PM
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-...
Love this Newcity story on how the history of Popcorn Innovations runs right through Chicago.
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...
resto.newcity.com
October 9, 2024 at 3:17 PM
Love this Newcity story on how the history of Popcorn Innovations runs right through Chicago.
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.
I have some pretty great friends.
October 7, 2024 at 12:58 AM
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.
I have some pretty great friends.
RIP to my namesake.
BREAKING NEWS: Kris Kristofferson, who wrote indelible songs about lovers, loners, boozers and a footloose pair of hitchhikers — and who later became a screen star, appearing in dozens of films — has died at age 88.
Kris Kristofferson, musical rebel and movie star, has died at age 88
Musician and film star Kris Kristofferson has died at age 88. His hit songs include "Me and Bobby McGee" and he starred in dozens of films, including A Star Is Born, opposite Barbra Streisand.
www.npr.org
September 29, 2024 at 11:05 PM
RIP to my namesake.
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
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”
media.tenor.com
September 24, 2024 at 8:46 PM
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
September 23, 2024 at 5:31 PM
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
Rumour has it this is a good one.
September 21, 2024 at 10:57 PM
Rumour has it this is a good one.
Gosh I love print media.
September 17, 2024 at 10:41 PM
Gosh I love print media.
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.
The Best of Fall
The 10 cultural events you won't want to miss this season.
www.chicagomag.com
September 17, 2024 at 2:30 PM
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!
September 13, 2024 at 10:16 PM
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.
September 12, 2024 at 8:18 PM
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
September 11, 2024 at 4:59 PM
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
September 11, 2024 at 2:29 AM
I HAVE CONCEPTS OF A PLAN LMAOOOOOOOOO
Just imagine being a normie voter trying to understand any goddamn thing he’s talking about
September 11, 2024 at 1:54 AM
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
September 11, 2024 at 1:46 AM
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.
What weird crank emails does your field get? Political science gets emails about how this 1 simple reform would change everything. I assume physicists get emails about free energy. What else?
September 7, 2024 at 5:11 PM
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?
OK, let's try this again: A proper Starter Pack (NOT a list) of film critic-type people on Bluesky. Will add names as I find them and as you let me know who I missed.
go.bsky.app/36mbBZk
go.bsky.app/36mbBZk
September 3, 2024 at 1:54 AM
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.”
August 30, 2024 at 9:38 PM
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
New scandal has dropped! Not including your high school job on your post-college résumé is officially sus
These people are weird
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These people are weird
x.com/peterjhasson...
August 29, 2024 at 4:45 PM
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
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...
September Agenda
Top 10 reasons to fill up your calendar this month.
www.chicagomag.com
August 28, 2024 at 5:42 PM
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
August 25, 2024 at 9:19 PM
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.
August 16, 2024 at 3:31 PM
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.