Your Chicago Curated Weekend: 1/11 – 1/14
Let’s get the massive number of events rolling with this curated weekend! There is so much to do this weekend including the legendary Buddy Guy shows at his equally legendary […]
Face the Chicago Cold With These Hot Winter Styles
Okay, so the holidays have passed, the glitzy New Year’s garb is hung back in the closet, and those gaudy Christmas sweaters are starting to feel a little out of […]
Mixed-Income Artists’ Residences Being Built in Washington Park
The KLEO Art Residence, a four-story 58-unit mixed-use building is being built at the corner of Garfield Boulevard and South Michigan Avenue. Mayor Rahm Emanuel was on hand for the […]
Biss Launches TV Ads as “The Middle Class Governor”
State Sen. Daniel Biss has launched television ads for his campaign for the Democratic nomination for Illinois governor. The first two ads–“Personal” and “Honework”–introduce the candidate as a middle-class community […]
Near-Record Temperatures for January on Thursday
Chicago could see record setting temperatures – warm ones – on Thursday. The Chicago Tribune reports the temperature at O’Hare reached 56 degrees at 8:00a.m. this morning, and a bank […]
CPS Gets Angry Feedback at Meeting on Closing of Four High Schools
A meeting to allow community members to provide feedback on Chicago Public Schools’ plan to close four high schools (Harper, Hope, Robeson and TEAM Englewood) quickly became an angry shouting […]
Interview: Jason Ritter on Committing to the Intensity of Bitch
Out on home video and several streaming platforms today is one of the more talked-about films out of last year’s Sundance Film Festival, writer-director Marianna Palka’s Bitch. Palka stars as […]
Preview: Northwestern Winter Chamber Music Festival Kicks Off This Friday
The annual Northwestern Winter Chamber Music Festival opens this Friday with the North American concert debut of a young ensemble hailing from the Netherlands, the Dudok Kwartet Amsterdam. Hosted by […]
Film Review: Paul Thomas Anderson Continues to Impress with Phantom Thread
I make no excuses about the fact that I adore every Paul Thomas Anderson film to varying (often excessive) degrees. And while all of them have felt very “adult” in […]
Edgar Allan Poe’s Life and Death Get a Melancholy Production by Black Button Eyes
Black Button Eyes’ darkly gothic production of Nevermore: The Imaginary Life and Mysterious Death of Edgar Allan Poe makes good use of the Edge Theatre’s spacious proscenium stage. The six performers […]
Another Carjacking, This Time Ending in Crash
After two men held a woman at gunpoint to rob her car in Hermosa, they crashed the car into a building on the 3000 block of North Laramie Avenue. Police […]
Hanging Gardens to Welcome Field Museum Visitors Before Summer
The Field Museum will add “plant clouds” to its Stanley Field Hall entrance where Dinosaur Sue lived for years. The floating plants are meant to foster the feeling of roaming […]