Red Tape Theatre inaugurates its new “The Ready” space with Howard Barker’s scenery-chewing angst-fest I Saw Myself. The 13th century widow Sleev (Carolyn Hoerdemann), vulnerable in a black slip, is weaving […]
It’s the weekend before Valentine’s Day and the events are looking good! Whether you’re looking for something to do with a significant other or just have a good time by […]
Chicago’s slow-to-recover housing market might make it look good to Amazon in its search for its HQ2 site, says Crain’s real estate specialist, Dennis Rodkin. Chicago not only has lower […]
J.B. Pritzker is the richest candidate to ever run for Illinois governor and may also be the most charitable. But he has donated what amounts to found money and paid no […]
Humboldt Park might not be the first place you’d think of when you’re talking about seeing comedy in Chicago, but recently, the ever-changing nature of Humboldt Park has become home […]
Thirty years into choreographing for his company Doug Varone and Dancers, Doug Varone believes he has become somewhat of a pointillist. He said looking back, his early choreography resembled the […]
As half of the dream-pop duo Desert Liminal and a few other music and non-music related projects, one wonders how Sarah Q has the time to write songs, record, and […]
The Obama administration in 2011 mandated that tipped workers keep their tips, but the U.S. Department of Labor has proposed reversing that rule. Instead, employers would combine all tips and […]
Some say it’s the end of an era at The Field Museum. SUE the T. Rex, the most complete skeletal example of their kind, came to be in Stanley Field […]
Josephine is the nice girl. She’s so nice that she remains living at home with her mother, working in a dead-end job, when she really wants to do what she […]
Pillars of the Community, adapted by Samuel Adamson from Henrik Ibsen’s 1877 work, The Pillars of Society, is one of Ibsen’s lesser performed works. According to scholars, Ibsen struggled to […]
The latest exhibition in the Museum of Contemporary Art’s Chicago Works series presents the work of Chicago-based artist Paul Heyer. Heyer creates a dream-like realm in his multisensory approach with his […]
