Chicago Magazine's August Issue: Best of Chicago 2012
Story highlights from the August 2012 issue of Chicago magazine.
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Top 5 Things to Do This Week
On your agenda: Houdini’s water escape is resurrected at the House Theatre… Fourth of July fireworks light up the sky … free traditional Korean art … plus, the weekend plans of the artist Eliza Myrie.
Crate-Digging IU Prof Turns Oldest Known Recording Back into Sound
Plus: the weird racial history of America’s first great indie record label, and other detours down the backroads of Indiana’s recording industry and the obsessives bringing it back to life.
Dennis Watkins Returns in ‘Death and Harry Houdini’
DARE DEVIL: The House Theatre co-founder and third-generation magician transforms his inheritance to a stage act
Emmet Sullivan Discusses the Best Summer Festivals in Chicago
Senior editor Emmet Sullivan visited WTTW’s Chicago Tonight to discuss the Chicago summer festivals you won’t want to miss.
Joe Meno Talks ‘Office Girl’
MORE THAN WORDS: Chicago’s prince of hipster lit explains why he colors outside the lines in his graphic new effort
Walter Paepcke, Founder of the Aspen Institute and Chicago Patron of Mid-Century Modernism
The second-generation Chicago industrialist Walter Paepcke not only ran one of the city’s largest companies, he introduced advertising’s factory town to modernism and founded the country’s most famous big-ideas festival. But he couldn’t have done it without his wife, her diplomat brother, and a trio of University of Chicago intellectuals.
Five Things to Do This Week
On your agenda: The Paris Opera Ballet glides across the Harris stage… Aretha Franklin’s pipes fill McCormick Place … free music from Eighth Blackbird… plus, the weekend plans of the artist Jessica Stockholder.
Five Best Things to Do in July
THE SHORTLIST: Five musts from our June culture calendar
Mayor Daley Does 'What's My Line?'
Rahm Emanuel’s forthcoming appearance on the new Dick Wolf serial is hardly the first network cameo by a Chicago mayor—Richard J. Daley lent his presence to CBS’s guessing game in his first year.