Chicago Ideas Week
Worth your time (and money): Jeanne Gang and Sandra Day O’Connor think big … Follies gets wistful … Susan Orlean waxes rhapsodic on Rin Tin Tin … plus, weekend plans from Joan of Arc’s Tim Kinsella
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Nick Digilio, Radio Man
Dmitry Samarov on his unlikely friendship with the WGN radio host
Best Things to Do in October in Chicago
POCKET GUIDE: A cultural shortlist for October, in order of buzz
Top 5 Things to Do This Week
The week is short. Play hard: The Goodman sees Red … the Backyard Film & Music Fest returns, with booze … the future of jazz comes to town … an expat artist spills her weekend plans … plus, three don’t-miss freebies from week 1 of Chicago Artists Month
Noah Vaughn, Photographer
Dmitry Samarov introduces us to photographer Noah Vaughn, whom the writer met 20 years ago at the School of the Art Institute. Vaughn, writes Samarov, “documents the crumbling, abandoned parts of the city without making a fetish of them. And that is no small feat.”
Mark Rothko at the Goodman Theatre and the Art Institute
“RED,” a play about Mark Rothko by former Chicagoan Josh Logan, opens tonight at the Goodman. Here’s where you can see Rothko’s paintings in person in Chicago and throughout the Midwest.
5 Great Pieces by Dmitry Samarov, Author of 'Hack: Stories From a Chicago Cab'
A brief introduction to the work of Dmitry Samarov: artist, writer, cab driver, and the next contributor to “Off the Grid,” dispatches from our writers-in-residence.
Bird. Staples. Prekop.
What to do this week: Mavis Staples and Andrew Bird blow out the Hideout’s candles … The Sea and Cake’s Sam Prekop spills his weekend plans … the Decemberists’ Colin Meloy gets even wordier … plus, free jazz, free Muti, free museums
A Deep Look at the 'Dark Knight' Chase Scene
RogerEbert.com founding editor Jim Emerson does a long analysis of the Batman film’s exciting, but arguably incomprehensible, Lower Wacker pursuit sequence.
Patrick Andrews Shares Rules for Success in Theatre
ROLE REVERSAL: After high-profile roles in several plays and musicals, this season, the 26-year-old is on the cast of Goodman’s “Red.”