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
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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.
Mike and Ian on Recovering from a Marathon, Fixing a Drowned iPhone, and More
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…
St. Louis's Wondrous City Museum
The Gateway City is home to one of the nation’s most spectacular, singular museums: a childlike maze of metal, water, and stone, the vision of a sculptor and contractor who finally got to combine his two gifts.
The Art Institute’s Douglas Druick on the Museum of the Future
VAN GOGH 2.0: The Institute’s director aims to lead backward-looking museums into the future
Five Must-See Classical Events
On our list: Elektra, World Orchestra for Peace, and more
Chicago TV Actors to Watch
Meet the next generations of performers from the Second City
Reality (TV) Check on Millennials
With Underemployed, its new Chicago-set series, MTV is the latest network to spin gold from the lives of the millennials. But until some flaws are fixed, these shows will remain fairy tails
Irvine Welsh on 'Trainspotting,' Writing, and Chicago
DARK KNIGHT: The cult literary hero chased his band of hoodlums from Scotland to Lake View for the final installment of his trilogy
Ten Must-See Concerts
On our list of can’t-miss music shows: Cat Power, The XX, Grimes, and Ninety Miles and Gonzalo Rubalcaba, and more