J.J. Abrams's 'Revolution': A Chicago Show That Might Not Get Cancelled
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.
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Your Top 5 Plans This Week
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
How Sears Guitars Changed the Sound of American Music Twice
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.
If You Didn't Think Chicago's Marilyn Monroe Sculpture Could Get Any More Eerie
How to pack up a massive, infamous sculpture: some disassembly, and a crane, required. Caution: may result in severe injury to the uncanny valley.
Buddy Guy on Buddy Guy in ‘When I Left Home’
An intimate new memoir from Chicago’s most beloved bluesman
Weekend Photos: Lucha VaVoom at Park West
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…
Chicago Magazine's June Issue: Great Escapes
Story highlights from the June 2012 issue of Chicago magazine.
A Window into Dawoud Bey’s Photography
His defiant subjects and deft touch allows us to feel his presence behind the camera, too.
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