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…
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.
VAN GOGH 2.0: The Institute’s director aims to lead backward-looking museums into the future
On our list: Elektra, World Orchestra for Peace, and more
Meet the next generations of performers from the Second City
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
DARK KNIGHT: The cult literary hero chased his band of hoodlums from Scotland to Lake View for the final installment of his trilogy
On our list of can’t-miss music shows: Cat Power, The XX, Grimes, and Ninety Miles and Gonzalo Rubalcaba, and more
The 61-year-old satirist will appear in conversation on Oct. 2 at the Harris.
