Recent Articles - Going Out

On your agenda: Songs to set the V-Day mood … Folkie fellowship at the University of Chicago … Photographs that make art of table scraps … plus, what South Side native and musical theatre star E. Faye Butler is doing this weekend
 

A ROOM WITH A BREW: A cozy art-gallery-slash-pub finds a home in a new community art center
 

by Claudine Isé

REINVENTING LEFTOVERS: The U. of C. prof and photographer celebrates the creative process and sharing food in two new exhibits
 

by Claudine Isé

RAGING BULL: The Spanish native premieres a new adaptation of ‘Carmen’ in March at the Harris Theater
 

by Laura Molzahn

A mostly dispassionate crowd—Bears fans to the core, we presume—kept one eye on the game last night at The Ogden (1659 W. Ogden Ave.; 312-226-1888) as the Giants beat the Patriots, 21–17...
 

INSIDER’S GUIDE: A beloved music venue’s expansion is one reason to revisit this North Side neighborhood. We’ve got 13 more
 

by Kevin McKeough

On your agenda: The Seldoms dance their way through Harris Theater … a Southern-style tragedy strikes Stage 773 … CSO’s composers in residence premiere works inspired by a farm, Fermilab, and Franz Schubert … plus, what the Chicago Dramatists resident playwright and actor-about-town Jon Steinhagen is doing this weekend
 

With marionettes multiplying on local stages, we rank the kid friendliness of four strings-attached works
 

by Robert Loerzel

THE SHORTLIST: Five musts from our February culture calendar
 

by Graham Meyer

What would America's pastime be without beer? It was only a matter of time before a baseball legend would slap his nickname on some tall boys, and that legend is former White Sox slugger Frank “Big Hurt” Thomas...
 

On the agenda: Football, bachelorette parties take a dramatic turn … Sundance lands at the Music Box … free Schubert … plus, what ICE’s Claire Chase is doing this weekend
 

War, what is it good for? Absolutely nothing. But when the battlefield is the dance floor, it's good for absolutely everything...
 

WHERE TO GO—NOW!: Feeling boxed in? Visit one of these eight destinations, each perfect for a mood-lifting spur-of-the-moment getaway
 

by Elaine Glusac and Nina Kokotas Hahn

On your agenda: You and Rosie talk Trump at the Siskel … Invisible Man makes its stage debut at the Court … dudes in tutus take over the Harris … plus, what the two-time National Poetry Slam champ Roger Bonair-Agard is doing this weekend
 

SEEN AT LAST: We chat with the show's director and an Ellison scholar to find out how Court bagged the production
 

by Catey Sullivan

SAMPLE GREATNESS: From The Aviary's Rum Manhattan to Sable's Transfinite Induction, we picked the 20 best cocktails in town—and lined them up from bitter to sweet.
 

by Lauren Viera

On a frigid Friday night, a young crowd warmed up and cut loose in Lincoln Hall during a performance by hip-hop-meets-eighties-pop artist Theophilus London...
 

MAKING THE LEAP: In a season that features choreography by bold-face names such as Twyla Tharp and Alonzo King, Hubbard Street Dance Chicago stages a premiere (untitled at presstime) by the ensemble member Penny Saunders in January.
 

Blackhawks fans walking from their parking spots to the United Center for last night’s game peered with interest into the windows of The Ogden (1659 W. Ogden Ave.), a new upscale sports bar and restaurant that is currently in soft-open mode...
 

by Amalie Drury

On the agenda: Doyle and Debbie do the Royal George … Dee Dee Bridgewater brings down the house … Blizzard ’67 reminds us what real cold feels like … plus, Jodi Kantor on The Obamas and what crime novelist Charlie Newton is doing this weekend