Five Things to Do This Week
On your agenda: A Lichtenstein retrospective pops up at the Art Institute … Craft Beer Week kicks off … Brookfield Zoo bugs out … plus, what the cartoonist Paul Hornschemeier is doing this weekend
On your agenda: A Lichtenstein retrospective pops up at the Art Institute … Craft Beer Week kicks off … Brookfield Zoo bugs out … plus, what the cartoonist Paul Hornschemeier is doing this weekend
“Is it important to leave an impact? Yeah, of course it is, otherwise what’s the point? I think the point is to delight in life.”
The creator of Lost and Felicity gives Chicago the post-apocalyptic depiction it deserves, while Law & Order creator Dick Wolf brings the first fake Mayor Emanuel to network TV.
On your agenda: The veteran Chicago journalist John Conroy debuts his first play … Chicago-based new-music collective throws a happening in Logan Square … Plus the weekend plans of Joan Gray of Chicago’s Muntu Dance Theatre
Sears’s cheap line of Silvertone guitars—and its catalog’s immense reach—introduced both Delta bluesmen and suburban garage teens to the instrument, shaping the course of American music.
How to pack up a massive, infamous sculpture: some disassembly, and a crane, required. Caution: may result in severe injury to the uncanny valley.
An intimate new memoir from Chicago’s most beloved bluesman
Between the Kentucky Derby, a much-hyped boxing match, and Cinco de Mayo, it seemed the entire city found reason to be out and about on Saturday…
Story highlights from the June 2012 issue of Chicago magazine.
His defiant subjects and deft touch allows us to feel his presence behind the camera, too.