Stern Pinball, Steven Kordek, and Chicago's Pinball Legacy
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
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Des Plaines High School Regulates Footloose Dancing
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.
Great Chicago Street Photographers of Past and Present
This Week in Awesome Photography: Vivian Maier, Charles Cushman, the Blue Star Hotel, public housing, “My Camera and I In the Loop,” and more
Your Plans for This Week
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
New to Me: Rotary Connection
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 on WTTW's Chicago Tonight
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.
Rick Bayless in Cascabel: Star Chef Steps into New Role
AND FOR HIS NEXT ACT…: In March, Rick Bayless steps into a new role, playing the romantic lead in a dramatic production that includes a three-course meal, plus dancing and daring feats by acrobats and contortionists. Which raises the question: Why would one of the nation’s foremost chefs risk his name on such a public tightrope?
Last Chance for Luminous Field at Millennium Park
Luftwerk’s installation art project, a collaboration with Owen Clayton Condon of Third Coast Percussion, completes its run in the park tonight from 6 to 9 pm.
Doak Ewing, Vintage Sports Film Collector
CELLULOID HERO: The Naperville man’s company, Rare Sportsfilms, specializes in rescuing and restoring old sports films. Want highlights of the 1953 Milwaukee Braves or the Cubs’ 1935 World Series? Doak’s got the goods