Meet Parka the Hutt
Ever wonder what to do with all of your parking receipts? Chicago magazine’s Jeff Ruby commissioned a parking-sticker monster.
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Chicago's New Tourism Anthem Is Bad, Like Every Tourism Anthem Ever
Chicago’s caterwauling maxi-jingle earns immediate thumbs down from the critics. But all city tourism jingles begin that way, until they become ironically loved (or get disappeared).
Your Plans This Week
On your agenda: Wynton Marsalis celebrates the big 5-0 at Symphony Center… A punk ballerina gets to the pointe at the MCA… Zombies go for your beer—not your brains—at an Andersonville pub crawl
Concepts Grant Achatz Should Never Try at Next
SKETCH BOOK: There are some culinary themes that the star chef should stay away from, says cartoonist Corinne Mucha
Chicago, the Universe, and Everything: Infographics Then and Now
The city and its buildings, in context: like, the whole context, from Burnham Park to the Willis Tower to the Virgo cluster to the edge of the observable universe and back.
The Bulls’ Secret Weapon: Tom Thibodeau
The coach, not D-Rose, can lead the Bulls to the promised land
Meet Chicago’s Blues Angels
Dominican University’s Blues and the Spirit symposium spotlights Chicago’s unsung divas
Top Five Things to Do This Week
On your agenda: The Iceman Cometh to Goodman Theatre—along with Brian Dennehy and Nathan Lane … A Dancing with the Stars-style spectacle heats up Galena’s Paramount Arts Center … The fashion designer Shane Gabier of Creatures of the Wind shares his weekend plans
The Parking Sticker Monster
STICKER SHOCK: Those #@*% parking receipts were driving me nuts—until I found a new purpose for the obnoxious clutter on my dashboard
Newsreels of Old Chicago
“Loyola Students Vie for Prize Beer Keg in Odd Pushball Game”; the most shot-at gangster in the country tells the Senate how to set the kids on the straight and narrow; and other good/bad ideas.