CHICAGO (CBS)-- Chi-Raq is a controversial name for Chicago, usually associated with violence.But now, Chi-Raq is the name of a new business on Chicago's South Side. CBS 2's Audrina Bigos went to ...

Spike Lee's latest, Chi-Raq, is designed to provoke: women in Chicago's south side go on a "sex strike" to curb gang violence, cribbing from Lysistrata, Aristophanes' comic account of the ...

The release of Spike Lee’s new film “Chi-Raq” this week comes at a weighty moment for the city of Chicago. The city’s chronic gun violence is back in the headlines thanks to a video of a ...

The words "This Is An Emergency" flash on-screen in red block letters at the outset of Spike Lee's satirical call to disarm, Chi-Raq, setting up the newscaster who'll set up the title. "Homicides ...

Yes, "Chi-Raq" is what Lee has also described as satire — a modern treatment of the Greek play "Lysistrata," first staged in 411 B.C. In fact, it's a Spike Lee satire, built around an ancient ...

Part sermon, part stand-up special and largely, bizarrely entertaining, “Chi-Raq” likely will go down as the best (and only) rhyme-based, Greek play-inspired sex comedy to examine life in one ...

Spike Lee’s “Chi-Raq” has its moments of overreaching, but when Lee is on point, the movie is powerful stuff – certainly his best in years.

Opening Dec. 4, Spike Lee’s “Chi-Raq” is destined to make almost everybody angry — not for what it says about Chicago’s homicide statistics, especially among young African-Americans, but ...

Spike Lee’s latest film, Chi-raq, is his best in years, which makes the fact that it’s so bad that much more frustrating.Lee set out to make a film about gun violence in black communities ...