The Five Best Things to Do in Chicago This Week
Jake Shimabukuro, Spektral Quartet, Chicago Winter Bike Swap, Mothers and Sons, and Return of the Exquisite Corpse
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Next Season Will Be Lyric Opera’s First Without Verdi or Puccini
But the opera house says this doesn’t mean it’s charting a new course.
Six Things to See at Chicago's Yearlong Shakespeare Festival
Rock ‘n’ roll Macbeth, hip-hop Othello, and David Carl’s Gary Busey’s One-Man Hamlet
See Sculptor Dianna Frid's Rare-Books-Inspired Work at DePaul Art Museum
Dianna Frid & Richard Rezac: Split Complementary will be on display starting next week.
Tortoise Returns with The Catastrophist
A force in experimental rock for more than two decades, the group releases its first album in seven years.
The Top Five Things to Do This Week in Chicago
The Glass Menagerie, Amid Festival, Battle Royale, Kate Berlant and John Early, and Black Sabbath
John Mulaney and Nick Kroll Are Bringing Oh, Hello to Chicago
When I interviewed comedian John Mulaney in November, he'd just announced plans to make an off-Broadway show out of Oh, Hello, his sketch series with Nick Kroll. A month later, the show opened to rave reviews in New York, and today the pair announced plans to mount it March 20 to 22 at the Athenaeum, just a few miles … Read more
10 Chicago Books to Look Forward To in 2016
Chicago‘s most anticipated reads of the year, from graphic novels to grammar guides
Five Things to Do in Chicago This Week
Tomorrow Never Knows, Abby Geni, Chicago Sinfonietta, Bob Saget, and Le Switch
Four Ways the Chicago Defender Changed America
In his new book, The Defender: How the Legendary Black Newspaper Changed America, Ethan Michaeli explores the legacy of the influential black newspaper. Here are four of its major accomplishments. 1. It pushed the Great Migration as a way to punish the South. At first, the paper discouraged blacks from going north because of the … Read more