Top Five Things to Do This Week
On your agenda: Irvin Welsh writes a play… top-tier comedians talk funny-business… free art, the weekend plans of the Chicago International Film Festival’s program director Mimi Plauché
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The President's Speech: Daniel Day-Lewis Fixes Lincoln's Accent
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.
An Honest Look at Abe Lincoln From Steven Spielberg
Daniel Day-Lewis captures Lincoln’s (high-pitched) voice in the much-anticipated historical drama
C-Chats: 'Black n Blue Boys/Broken Men' at Goodman Theatre
Dael Orlandersmith’s one-woman show, about the victims—and perpetrators—of child molestation and abuse, takes the audience to a dark place.
Scary Chicago Halloween Costumes
Drew Peterson, Chicago’s murder rates, Groupon’s stock, and more
Chicago Magazine's November Issue: 50 Best Sandwiches
Story highlights from the November 2012 issue of Chicago magazine.
Q&A: Photographer Daniel Shea and His New Work, 'Blisner, Ill.'
The young but prolific Chicago photographer previews his latest work—and new book—at the Museum of Contemporary Photography.
C-Chats: 'Sweet Bird' at the Goodman Theatre
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…
Top 5 Things to Do This Week
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
Q&A: Don Share Previews Poetry Foundation’s New Anthology
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.