It’s a bird! It’s a plane! It’s a new series of superhero-themed buttons from Chicago’s own Busy Beaver! On Friday night, the 16-year-old button company released its next installment of 15 designs…
RELATED STORY: Roger Ebert: A Life in the Movies »
FROM DECEMBER 2005: He was an eager young man fresh from Urbana when he started reviewing movies for the Chicago Sun-Times more than three decades ago. His intervening years have featured unimagined success, abiding friendships, too much booze (for a time), the death of a colleague, bouts with cancer, and (rather late) lasting love. His passion for film has made Ebert a bigger star than many of the people he writes about.
What to do this week: The complete four-hour Sophocles … getting to know Manu Chao … how to win free theatre tickets … and more
The engineering-trained novelist (and City News Bureau vet) explains the structure of great narratives. Plus: other outstanding novelists to come out of the sciences.
What to do this week: Spending Labor Day in Chicago? Get a jump on fall theatre season with our top five theatre picks. Plus, Tanya Saracho’s weekend plans and a cheat sheet to Chicago Jazz Festival.
A BUNNY’S TALE: The 34-year-old Highland Park native and Northwestern grad on his new fall show.
I can’t get away from dudes lining up to look like Don Draper, the man women want and men want to be, despite the fact that he’s a self-loathing jerk. Or maybe I’m just jealous that I’m not being target-marketed to.
FORWARD THINKER: The Marina City architect has a posthumous moment
POCKET GUIDE: From the Route 66 Car Show in Berwyn and the Hyde Park Jazz Fest to Andrew Bird at the Hideout and the Goodman’s production of “Red”—a cultural shortlist for September, in order of buzz
