Bound for Glory
More than anything, Leon Forrest wanted to be recognized as a great writer. Now, ravaged by cancer, he raced death to finish his final novel
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Are You Ready for This Jelly?
This Week’s Five: Bloodless bodies at the Shedd … debauched rockers at the Music Box … peerless bluegrass at Auditorium Theatre … plus, what Matt Rucins, the longtime booker for Schubas and Lincoln Hall, is doing this weekend
The First Movie Ever Shot in Chicago
See Chicago’s law-enforcement splendor on parade circa 1896, captured by the first man to ever shoot with a moving camera, and who beat Edison to our town by a few months.
Whoopi’s ‘White Noise,’ Sarah Vowell
This Week’s Five: White Noise at the Royal George … Joe Lovano at Jazz Showcase … CHIRP Record Fair returns … plus, what Sarah Vowell is doing this Wednesday and two don’t-miss gallery openings
Sarah Vowell on Chicago Architecture, Buildings as Friends, and How No One is as Uptight as Frank Lloyd Wright
We talked to Sarah Vowell—author, This American Life alumna, and recipient of an M.A. in art history from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago—for this week’s Chicago Guide newsletter. Here, more from our conversation with Vowell, who’ll be reading from her new book on the history of Hawaii, Unfamiliar Fishes, tonight at 7 p.m. in Oak Park…
Should You Feel Guilty About Being Interested in Charlie Sheen?
How to turn away leisurely from the disaster that is the My Violent Torpedo of Truth/Defeat Is Not An Option tour, which is currently plowing its unfortunate way across the nation.
Five Best Things to Do in April
POCKET GUIDE: A cultural short-list for April, in order of buzz
Putting the ‘Hot’ in ‘Hotel’
This Week’s Five: Steppenwolf heats up … robots pursue world domination through opera … a rare Scorsese short gets new life … plus, what the world-class comic artist Ivan Brunetti is doing this weekend
The Last Oprah Winfrey Show: As Secretive As the Star
The Queen of Media was social media before Facebook ever existed, giving us permission to be our authentic selves before we had even realized we weren’t being either authentic or ourselves. But as her show ends after 27 years, we have to ask: will we ever know who Oprah Winfrey is?
Uji Films Duo Looks at School Lunches in the New Documentary, 'Lunch Line'
TRAY TALK: A Q&A with Michael Graziano and Ernie Park on the school food movement