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.
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.
THE SHORTLIST: Five musts from our June culture calendar
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.
Dennis Rodkin visited WTTW’s Chicago Tonight to discuss the latest home sales figures for the Chicago area.
The court painter to America’s athletic royalty, Hugh Hefner’s bon vivant in residence, and a legendary graduate of the School of the Art Institute, passes away at the age of 91.
On the agenda: Folkloric Iberian dance… a green summer festival … a free solstice celebration… plus, the weekend plans of Chicago vibraphonist Jason Adasiewicz.
TRUE DAT: Are we as dramatic as these shows make us out to be?
Chicago magazine’s editor-in-chief Elizabeth Fenner appeared on WGN-TV’s Morning Show to discuss The Alfresco Everywhere Guide to Summer, as featured in the July 2012 issue.
On the agenda: Audrey Niffenegger discuss her morbid curiosity, Jill Scott returns to the stage… comic artists take over Chicago … free Elgar… plus, the weekend plans of the Graham Foundation’s Sarah Herda.
