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.
With marionettes multiplying on local stages, we rank the kid friendliness of four strings-attached works
THE SHORTLIST: Five musts from our February culture calendar
A find from the Terkel archives: the radio legend reading “How the Devil Came Down Division Street” and “Chicago: City on the Make” from a tribute to his friend.
On the agenda: Football, bachelorette parties take a dramatic turn … Sundance lands at the Music Box … free Schubert … plus, what ICE’s Claire Chase is doing this weekend
Dirk Lohan on his grandfather’s houses; Thomas Heatherwick at IIT; the plans for Navy Pier go on display; and more.
The Los Angeles native marked a major turn for Chicago’s Chess Records, bringing the city’s blues-jazz-pop crossover sound to the biggest audience it had ever reached.
On your agenda: You and Rosie talk Trump at the Siskel … Invisible Man makes its stage debut at the Court … dudes in tutus take over the Harris … plus, what the two-time National Poetry Slam champ Roger Bonair-Agard is doing this weekend
SEEN AT LAST: We chat with the show’s director and an Ellison scholar to find out how Court bagged the production
David Bernstein discusses the changes in the Obama for President Campaign, from 2008 to 2012.
