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Top Events This Week: The choreographer Faustin Linyekula bundles up for a performance at the MCA … free art, free film … plus what Northwestern’s Chicago-lit guy, Bill Savage, is doing this weekend
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The Purple Hotel and the Architectural Legacy of Hausner & Macsai
Lincolnwood’s old Hyatt has long since fallen into disrepair and exists mostly as a cult kitsch memory. But the Chicago firm behind it is responsible for more of the local skyline than you might realize.
'Boss' Stars Kelsey Grammer as Chicago's Mayor
A new cable (Starz) drama about political megalomania unfolds in—where else?—our mayor’s office
Markéta Irglová Goes Solo with New Album, 'Anar'
ON HER OWN: After singing with The Swell Season and Iron and Wine, the ingénue and co-star of the movie “Once” gets married and records a solo album in Chicago
Chicago magazine's November Issue: Best Breakfasts
Story highlights from the November 2011 issue of Chicago magazine.
The CSO Plays Ives (Oh, and 'Also Sprach Zarathustra')
Tonight Susanna Mälkki leads the CSO in Charles Ives’s “The Unanswered Question,” a short, funny, eerie little piece that’s either about the cosmos or tonality.
Inside the Mind of Lyric Opera Honcho Anthony Freud
GREAT BRIT: His bucket list, foods he can’t live without, fantasy opera team, and more
Bill Savage, Writer and Editor
Dmitry Samarov met his future editor when the Northwestern prof bought one of the artist’s paintings in 2001. Here, more on Savage, an avid cyclist and scholar of Chicago history
A Farewell to Arms
Top 5 Things to Do This Week: Profiles Theatre goes dark (as in comedy) … Twyla Tharp stages a premiere … Matthew Sweet still needs a girlfriend … plus, loads of free stuff and the new MSI crasher’s weekend plans
5 Reasons to See Maria Bamford at Mayne Stage
The comedian whom Marc Maron describes as “the best comic in the country,” a veteran of Patton Oswalt’s “Comedians of Comedy Tour,” does a two-night stand this weekend.