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.
DARE DEVIL: The House Theatre co-founder and third-generation magician transforms his inheritance to a stage act
Senior editor Emmet Sullivan visited WTTW’s Chicago Tonight to discuss the Chicago summer festivals you won’t want to miss.
MORE THAN WORDS: Chicago’s prince of hipster lit explains why he colors outside the lines in his graphic new effort
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.
