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
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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.
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
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