Things to Do This Winter in Chicago: Calendar of Events
An antihibernation guide to cultural happenings during the drab months
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Things to Do This Winter in Chicago: Expand Your Mind
Lectures, classes, movies and smart activities for your kids
Top Five Things to Do This Week
What to do this week: Jane Birkin plays the Portage … Stew stirs up SPACE … punk rock and demons invade the U. of C. … you crash a free holiday party
Maya Lin on Landscape Architecture
The great landscape architect, famous since designing the Vietnam Memorial at the age of 21, gives a tour of her work at UIC.
Five Best Things to Do in December
POCKET GUIDE: A cultural shortlist for the month, in order of buzz
What to Do After the Turkey Settles
Football only lasts so long. Your agenda for the weekend ahead: A local premiere at Chicago Shakespeare Theater … two films worth skipping the multiplex for … The Swell Season’s Markéta Irglová goes solo … Thanksgiving with Green City Market’s head honcho
Midwest Highlights from the 'Postmodernism' Exhibit at the V&A in London
From the Pruitt-Igoe housing complex to Stanley Tigerman’s The Titanic, a brief look at postmodernism’s influence on the Midwest.
Chicago in the 1970s: The EPA Photographs of John H. White
The Peanut Man, Savior’s Day, the Bud Billiken Parade, the Kadats of America, and more images of Chicago’s South and West sides from one of the city’s legendary photojournalists.
Merce Beaucoup
Top 5 Things to Do This Week: A dance institution takes a final leap … the Neos do seasonal theatre, sort of … Black Ensemble Theater moves into new digs, remounts a hit … free Dungeons & Dragons … plus, WBEZ reporter Natalie Moore’s weekend agenda
This Week in Music in Chicago, and People Talking About It
Former Q101 host Electra on the disappearance of rock from the FM dial; how Chicago house and Detroit techno took over the world; our city’s underground ball scene; and the Chicago premiere of a Nico Muhly choral work.