A Window into Dawoud Bey’s Photography
His defiant subjects and deft touch allows us to feel his presence behind the camera, too.
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Top 5 Things to Do This Week
On your agenda: An arts and local-business fest dubs Bridgeport the community of the future … The Art Institute remounts the photographer Dawoud Bey’s ’70s street portraits … The cabaret chanteuse Spider Saloff plays eight characters in one show
Pop Ed at the Art Institute’s Lichtenstein Show
What to see, picked by the exhibition’s curator
Five Best Things to Do in May
THE SHORTLIST: Five musts from our May culture calendar
Dennis Rodkin Discusses Renting a Home
Dennis Rodkin visited the set of ABC7 to offer tips and advice on renting a home.
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.
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.