Chicago's Art Scene Is Booming Right Now
Here are three new galleries to check out now, and three big shows to see in Chicago this September.
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Jennifer Tanaka on Windy City Live
Executive digital editor Jennifer Tanaka appeared on Windy City Live to share Chicago magazine’s Best of Chicago picks, as featured in the August 2013 issue.
Stefan Sagmeister's The Happy Show Is at the Chicago Cultural Center
The graphic artist and noted TED speaker has a new exhibit that studies the elusive emotion called happiness.
Dennis Rodkin Discusses Frank Lloyd Wright Homes for Sale
Dennis Rodkin appeared on WTTW’s Chicago Tonight to discuss area Frank Lloyd Wrights for sale, as featured in the August 2013 issue.
Best Dancing
Primary 5 W. Division St., 312-888-2471, primarychi.com Electronica: The year-old basement club offers chest-vibrating escape from the usual Gold Coast obnoxiousness. With its curated calendar of top-notch music artists, friendly barkeeps, and come-as-you-are vibe, this is a downtown electronica lounge you can love. Subterranean 2011 W. North Ave., 773-278-6600, subt.net Reggae: Purists might scoff at … Read more
Best Dancer
Victoria Jaiani Catch her on August 23 in a solo showcase at the Museum of Contemporary Art; chicagodancingfestival.com Ghost-like. Haunting. Celestial. Critics have used spectral adjectives to describe this ethereal, long-limbed prima. Plucked from the Joffrey training program to join the company before she was even 17, the Rogers Park resident, born in Tbilisi, Georgia, … Read more
Best Emerging Comedy Troupe
Kill All Comedy killallcomedy.com You can’t swing a rubber chicken without hitting the two-year-old collective Kill All Comedy. The group of Chicago young guns seems to be everywhere these days: The upstarts have two albums, multiple podcasts and video shorts, a monthly residency at the Upstairs Gallery, and a weekly show at Quenchers Saloon. They’ve … Read more
Best Emerging Theatre Company
16th Street Theater 6420 16th St., Berwyn, 708-795-6704, 16thstreettheater.org Under the artistic director Ann Filmer’s cultivation, this theatre has been slowly and steadily building a reputation for excellence since 2008. Its six-show Equity season regularly regales local audiences with outstanding work, including Michael Sidney Fosberg’s Incognito, Marilyn Campbell’s The Beats, and world premieres from Rohina … Read more
Best Hotels
Aloft Chicago City Center 515 N. Clark St., 312-661-1000, aloftchicagocitycenter.com Best new: Opened in June at Clark Street and Grand Avenue, this is one of the city’s first hotels positioned to capitalize on a neighborhood of great dining. Part of a new complex that includes two other new hotels (Hyatt Place and Fairfield Inn and … Read more
Best Live Reading Series
Write Club The Hideout, 1354 W. Wabansia Ave., writeclubrules.com Anchored by the mad villainy of its host, Ian Belknap, this competition-style reading pits writer against writer in a literary cage match: Each participant writes an essay defending one side of an assigned dichotomy (fight versus flight, land versus sea, nice versus naughty) and reads it … Read more