Chicago Is Getting Another Music Festival, and Passion Pit Is Headlining
The inaugural Mamby on the Beach festival runs July 11–12 at Oakwood Beach in Bronzeville
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Here Are the Top Five Things to Do in Chicago This Week
Chicago Critics Film Festival celebrates its third year, plus more great things to do this week in the city.
Aleksandar Hemon’s New Novel Tackles Zombies
The MacArthur ‘genius’ gives zombies the brainy treatment in his madcap new novel.
Jane Austen's Sense and Sensibility is Now a Musical
Composer Paul Gordon shares how he wrote the new show, which premieres this weekend at Chicago Shakespeare Theater.
Here's What's Happening in Chicago Culture This Week
Billy Corgan takes a wrestling job, D’Angelo headlines North Coast, and the Art Institute gets a $400 million gift.
Chicago Theater Takes on Police Brutality, Obama, and More
Three political plays this spring engage in contemporary American issues.
Get Your Photo Taken With Khal Drogo for $50 This Weekend
The Dothraki chief will swing by McCormick Place for Chicago Comic & Entertainment Expo this weekend.
Chicago Opera Theater Operates on a $2.9 Million Budget. Here's How.
General director Andreas Mitisek shares how his company gets by on an annual budget that less than 5 percent of the Lyric Opera’s.
A Museum of ‘No-Longer-Art’ Opens in Hyde Park
The Salvage Art Institute is a refuge for art in limbo.
John Preus’s New Exhibition Salvages Items from Closed CPS Schools
An Invisible Hand opens May 21.