When I Say Chicago capital city of the flyover. crown jewel of the jailhouse. a town in love with its own blood, a blood browned on its own history & funk. this hometown of the riot & the riot gear, the gang & the loitering law. misfit blocks of dark skinned cousins & thick knuckled … Read more
A Q&A with Steve James
A few of the 400-plus items that members of the museum’s Harris Learning Collection can borrow for a fee
From left: Coon, Sinise, McCraney, Shannon, Allen, Mamet Joan Allen. Carrie Coon. David Cromer. Frank Galti. Tracy Letts. William H. Macy. John Malkovich. David Mamet. Tarell Alvin McCraney. Laurie Metcalf. Amy Morton. Jessie Mueller. Bruce Norris. Denis O’Hare. William Petersen. Sarah Ruhl. David Schwimmer. Michael Shannon. Anna D. Shapiro. Gary Sinise. Mary Zimmerman … Shall … Read more
Photo: Ratko Radojcic Dennis Scott, who plays the Music Box Theatre’s glorious pipe organ during silent-movie showings, says that the greatest compliment he can hope for is when patrons tell him his playing matched the movie so well that they forgot he was there. Well, apologies, Maestro Scott, but I cannot let the organ fall … Read more
Don’t judge a book by its cover, or a building by its façade. These lobbies and atria rank among the city’s best architectural vistas.
Photo: Clark Maxwell Photo: Courtesy of Jacob Kearney Photo: Francesco Villa
Pothole #1, 4631 N. Kenton Ave. Photos: Courtesy of the artist Here’s a reason to embrace our winter weather: Without it, we wouldn’t have so many potholes, and without so many potholes, we wouldn’t have pothole art—specifically, the whimsical tile mosaics that Jim Bachor has been clandestinely embedding in patches of broken pavement around the … Read more
Illustration: Hawk Krall For comediennes at Ladylike, the monthly all-female storyteller showcase at Cafe Mustache, holding back is strictly verboten. Liz Ziner told a story about pulling out an IUD she mistook for a tampon. Brittany Meyer upped the ante with an anecdote about her DivaCup spilling during sex and turning her bed into a … Read more
Tickets to more than 100 local shows come at the deep discount of $15 to $30 a head.
