Chicagoan Adam Levin’s new book is a different type of fiction from his debut novel, 2010’s The Instructions, which clocked in at 1,030 pages and took a decade to write. A collection of ten short stories (some previously published in the likes of Tin House and McSweeney’s), Hot Pink’s longest entry tops out at 38 … Read more
THE SHORTLIST: A few musts from this month’s culture calendar
For years, the Chicago businessman traveled the city and country documenting America (and some of its attractive women) on impossibly vivid Kodachrome. Now Oxford University Press has a celebration of his vast work.
This Week in Pinball: A journalistic and photographic tour of Stern Pinball, last bastion of Chicago’s pinball legacy; RIP Steve Kordek, Chicago pinball legend; and more
Maine West to crack down on inappropriate dancing, from grinding to “bending over.” They’ll track dirty dancing with wristbands, immortal signal of permission to do things.
This Week in Awesome Photography: Vivian Maier, Charles Cushman, the Blue Star Hotel, public housing, “My Camera and I In the Loop,” and more
On your agenda: Steppenwolf premieres a high-school survival saga … A MacArthur genius bebops with CJE … Genghis Khan invades the Field … plus, what composer Kyle Vegter is doing this weekend
A look back at Chess Records’ house psychedelic band, led by a pre-stardom Minnie Riperton and featuring Phil Upchurch, Mitch Aliotta, and John Jeremiah, among many others.
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Cassie Walker Burke discussed the 100 Most Powerful Chicagoans list, as featured in the March 2012 issue of Chicago magazine, on WTTW’s Chicago Tonight.
