Chicago magazine's March Issue: The 100 Most Powerful Chicagoans
Story highlights from the March 2012 issue of Chicago magazine.
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Top Five Things to Do This Week
On your agenda: Songs to set the V-Day mood … Folkie fellowship at the University of Chicago … Photographs that make art of table scraps … plus, what South Side native and musical theatre star E. Faye Butler is doing this weekend
Theaster Gates, Artist and Urban Planner, On His Style Inspirations
GOLDEN GATES: The rising star, whose work has been shown at the Whitney and LA’s MOCA, talks about the West Side church that gave him his fashion, and picks 10 of his favorite things
Laura Letinsky’s Art of Leftovers
REINVENTING LEFTOVERS: The U. of C. prof and photographer celebrates the creative process and sharing food in two new exhibits
Chicago’s Newest Video Games
STATE OF PLAY: A new generation of game studios has risen from the ashes of Midway Games and EA’s local office, bringing games for all ages across gaming platforms
Meet Luna Negra Dance Theater’s Gustavo Ramírez Sansano
RAGING BULL: The Spanish native premieres a new adaptation of ‘Carmen’ in March at the Harris Theater
Top 5 Things to Do This Week
On your agenda: The Seldoms dance their way through Harris Theater … a Southern-style tragedy strikes Stage 773 … CSO’s composers in residence premiere works inspired by a farm, Fermilab, and Franz Schubert … plus, what the Chicago Dramatists resident playwright and actor-about-town Jon Steinhagen is doing this weekend
RIP Don Cornelius, "Soul Train" Host
The creator of television’s longest-running nationally-syndicated show is a Chicago broadcasting legend, but he had to head for Hollywood for “Soul Train” to become what it was. Plus: James Brown, David Bowie, and Gladys Knight on the Soul Train stage.
Puppet Plays Take Chicago
With marionettes multiplying on local stages, we rank the kid friendliness of four strings-attached works
Five Best Things to Do in February
THE SHORTLIST: Five musts from our February culture calendar