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Top 5 Things to Do This Week

06/06/12

Top 5 Things to Do This Week

On the agenda: Luna Negra’s heady, angst-driven dance . . . CSO musicians pair music with art . . . TBS brings some of America’s funniest folks to Chicago . . . Free blues . . . plus, the weekend plans of the Active Transportation Alliance’s Lee Crandell

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Top Five Things to Do This Week

05/30/12

Top Five Things to Do This Week

On your agenda: Phylicia Rashad and Paul Oakley Stovall team up at Goodman … Directors explore the fourth dimension—and more—at Chicago Underground Film Festival … Two Brothers Brewing Company throws a bash with bands and brews

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The Five: Top Picks for Things to Do This Week

05/23/12

The Five: Top Picks for Things to Do This Week

On your agenda: The CSO’s piano fest draws Danilo Pérez and some of jazz’s other big guns … Chicago says “aloha” to an inaugural celebration of Hawaiian culture … Kelly Hogan croons—no charge—in Millennium Park

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Five Things to Do This Week

05/16/12

Five Things to Do This Week

On your agenda: A Lichtenstein retrospective pops up at the Art Institute … Craft Beer Week kicks off … Brookfield Zoo bugs out … plus, what the cartoonist Paul Hornschemeier is doing this weekend

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Your Top 5 Plans This Week

05/09/12

Your Top 5 Plans This Week

On your agenda: The veteran Chicago journalist John Conroy debuts his first play … Chicago-based new-music collective throws a happening in Logan Square … Plus the weekend plans of Joan Gray of Chicago’s Muntu Dance Theatre

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Top 5 Things to Do This Week

05/02/12

Top 5 Things to Do This Week

On your agenda: An arts and local-business fest dubs Bridgeport the community of the future … The Art Institute remounts the photographer Dawoud Bey’s ’70s street portraits … The cabaret chanteuse Spider Saloff plays eight characters in one show

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Your Plans This Week

04/25/12

Your Plans This Week

On your agenda: Wynton Marsalis celebrates the big 5-0 at Symphony Center… A punk ballerina gets to the pointe at the MCA… Zombies go for your beer—not your brains—at an Andersonville pub crawl

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Top Five Things to Do This Week

04/18/12

Top Five Things to Do This Week

On your agenda: The Iceman Cometh to Goodman Theatre—along with Brian Dennehy and Nathan Lane … A Dancing with the Stars-style spectacle heats up Galena’s Paramount Arts Center … The fashion designer Shane Gabier of Creatures of the Wind shares his weekend plans

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Your Top 5 Plans This Week

04/11/12

Your Top 5 Plans This Week

On your agenda: Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater bounds into town for a five-day engagement … Lizzy Caplan premieres her new flick at the Chicago International Movies & Music Festival … Art, photography, and film are fair game for the fashion designers featured at the Art Institute

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Top 5 Things to Do This Week

04/04/12

Top 5 Things to Do This Week

On your agenda: Steppenwolf ensemble members march through a Civil War saga… Old Town School of Folk Music plays host to folk royalty … Chicago Jazz Ensemble jams with the poet Sonia Sanchez

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