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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
How a Chicago Detective Found the Stolen Body of Elizabeth Taylor's Third Husband, Mike Todd
When thieves stole the remains of the showman Mike Todd in 1977, Anthony Pellicano—later the “detective to the stars”—stepped in to solve a case that had baffled police. Turns out Todd and Pellicano had lots in common, especially a craving for the spotlight.
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This Week’s Five: National Theatre of Scotland’s Black Watch makes its Chicago premiere … dance for $5, theatre for $10, concerts for $15 … plus, what Kartemquin Films’ founder Gordon Quinn is doing this weekend
'The Interrupters': Kartemquin Films Goes Inside CeaseFire
THE PEACEMAKERS: A new documentary by Steve James and Alex Kotlowitz follows three former felons who return to their Chicago neighborhoods and embark upon a unique antiviolence campaign
What Lupe Fiasco Is Reading, Listening to, and Wearing Right Now
Get inside the mind—and the closet—of Chicago’s cerebral hip-hop star
Jon Michael Hill, Steppenwolf Actor and Star of 'Detroit 1-8-7,' Returns to the Local Stage in 'The Hot L Baltimore'
A STAR ON DECK: A look at the next big thing
Behind the Scenes at the Spring 2011 Fashion Shoot
RELATED STORY: SPRING FASHION—SULTRY SEVENTIES STYLE » Chicago’s fashion director Stacey Jones and senior fashion editor Stephanie Soong jetted to the bewitching, cobblestoned streets of Old San Juan, Puerto Rico, for the March feature Viva la Vida, our spring ode to sultry seventies style. Despite a torrential downpour and a feral cat attack, the dynamic … Read more