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Hometown Talent Stars at the Chicago Dancing Festival
FEELIN’ GROOVY: The Midwest’s largest dance festival presents Bolero Chicago with 70 volunteers
Friday Digestif: The Chicago Indie Music Scene, Just Before It Was Cool
Before the Wicker Park scene was all over MTV, there was The Pulse, a public-access show that captured Chicago indie music just as indie music was coming into existence.
Backtalk: A Conversation about Steppenwolf's 'Three Sisters'
Tracy Letts’s version of the Anton Chekhov play struggles to connect with the audience, according to our two editors who saw the show on separate nights…
Vote Ferris 2012?
Bueller is one of 12 fictional campaigns cooked up by nextmovie.com to coincide with The Campaign, the new political comedy starring Will Ferrell and Zach Galifianakis…
Top Five Things to Do This Week
On your agenda: Don Quixote chases windmills and wenches… Taj Mahal sings the blues… a free festival… plus, the weekend plans of the violinist J. Austin Wulliman.
Robert Hughes in Chicago
The brilliant art critic, who died yesterday at the age of 74, took on the immense legacy of Ludwig Mies van der Rohe in a 2003 documentary that’s an engaging, thoughtfully critical look at Chicago architecture in the master’s wake.
Odds N' Friends Show Spoofs 'Total Recall' at Hungry Brain
Seen Monday night at the Hungry Brain: a bare ass, a life-size Arnold Schwarzenegger puppet, and a video montage set to Drowning Pool’s “Bodies” (in which “let the bodies hit the floor” loops endlessly). These elements were all part of Totally Recalled, a comedy show performed by Odds N’ Friends…
Chicago 1857 Mapped Onto Chicago 2012
Much of Ukrainian Village was once farmland owned by a prominent member of New York society; cab fares in Chicago have really declined since the 1850s; and other explorations in an old map.
Shakespeare in the Parks: Six Reasons to See It Now
Chicago Shakespeare Theatre’s “Taming of the Shrew” brings the Bard to the city’s parks. Here’s why you should check out the show before it’s too late