Ten Things to Do in Chicago This Week
This week: Chic and Earth, Wind & Fire, Kendrick Lamar, Wait Wait…Don’t Tell Me!, The Newberry Book Fair, Fiesta del Sol, and more
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Neo-Nazi Scare Becomes Inspiration for Jazz Drummer Mike Reed
Reed’s stunning new album, Flesh and Bone, reflects the experience of everyday prejudice.
These Artists Built a Lush Garden Inside a Living Room
With more than 50 types of plants, it's for an upcoming indie film about a woman pursuing a "beautiful, ideal death."
#KingOfTheMitzvahs
Party emcee Kareem Wells—a.k.a. K.W.O.E.—once sold drugs on the West Side. Now he’s the toast of Chicago’s Jewish elite.
This or That?: Pitchfork Edition
Vagabon doesn't drink beer. Jeff Rosenstock learned Spanish from Sesame Street. Hot dogs won the Chicago meat faceoff. And we think we broke up a couple (sorry). Check out what happened when we asked Pitchfork performers and attendees these either/or questions.
Luis Sahagun’s New Show Tackles Death and Violence in His Childhood
The sculptor’s new mixed-media exhibition, The Mountains Whispered and the Canyon Sang, opens this week.
Ten Things to Do This Week in Chicago
In the Blue Light: Stories of India, Drive-By Truckers, Cirque du Soleil’s Luzia, A Broadway Romance, A Mid-Summer Night’s Daydream, and more
I Spent a Day at Pitchfork Eating Only Free Food and I Felt Terrible
There is only one good free meal at the whole fest, and everyone knows it.
Late Night Done Right
Winners for best 4 a.m. bar, late-night theater, after-hours jazz, 24-hour spa, and postbar eats.
Amanda Williams Turns Abandoned Properties into Art
Then, the South Side artists asks: “Why do they become special when I paint them? Why did you not care when it was just boarded up?”