The notoriously rigorous actor surprised people with his reedy-voiced Great Emancipator, but it’s actually a lot closer to what Abraham Lincoln plausibly sounded like than the profoundly silly screen Lincolns of legend.
Daniel Day-Lewis captures Lincoln’s (high-pitched) voice in the much-anticipated historical drama
Dael Orlandersmith’s one-woman show, about the victims—and perpetrators—of child molestation and abuse, takes the audience to a dark place.
Drew Peterson, Chicago’s murder rates, Groupon’s stock, and more
Story highlights from the November 2012 issue of Chicago magazine.
The young but prolific Chicago photographer previews his latest work—and new book—at the Museum of Contemporary Photography.
Academy Award nominee Diane Lane hasn’t been seen on stage since a 1989 production of Twelfth Night (she played Olivia), so when it was announced that she would mark her theater return in David Cromer’s Sweet Bird of Youth at the Goodman Theatre, we knew we had to check her out while we had the chance. Read our culture editors’ take on the play…
On your agenda: The Lyric seasons has an “electrik” beginning… Beth Orton returns to Chicago… a free fall festival, the weekend plans of the filmmaker Jonah Ansell
Open Door, a new anthology celebrating 100 years of the Poetry Foundation, reproduces a hundred poems from the past century. Poetry magazine senior editor Don Share previews the book and discusses who is—and isn’t—featured.
In our Fall Culture Guide, we feature funny duo Mike Danforth and Ian Chillag, producers for NPR’s Wait Wait, Don’t Tell Me! and founders (and voices) behind the weekly podcast How To Do Everything. Here, they give me a few more tips for recovering from a marathon, fixing a drowned iPhone, and making flights more pleasant…
