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POCKET GUIDE: A cultural short-list for September, in order of buzz
Guitar Heroics
Our top five picks for things to do this week: Ravinia gets ready to rock (really) . . . Iggy oils up . . . a Pritzker/Marsalis coproduction premieres . . . weekend plans from Chicago’s squire about town . . . and more
Stoppard's 'Hound' at Signal Ensemble Theatre: A Case for Newspapers?
Saturday night, I took in the Signal Ensemble Theatre’s rendering of The Real Inspector Hound and I was reminded that the highlight (for me) of the play comes when Moon, finally given the chance to showcase his talent, spins into an hallucinatory imagining of the review he will write—a thunderously inflated speech…
The Hair Awards Featured on WGN's Midday Fix
Senior editor Cassie Walker visited WGN’s Midday Fix studios, along with five Chicago stylists, to discuss The Hair Awards, which was featured in the August 2010 issue of Chicago. The piece named 32 top salons throughout the city and suburbs. Here’s Cassie talking hair, stylists, salons, and more.
Books We Like: 'Historic Photos of the Chicago World's Fair' by Russell Lewis
Russell Lewis, the executive vice president and chief historian at the Chicago History Museum, prefaces Historic Photos of the Chicago World’s Fair by noting that “[t]he World’s Columbian Exposition of 1893 was the most photographed event in the nineteenth century.” Many of the photos shot at Chicago’s great South Side fair ended up…
Robbie Fulks’s Weekend Plans
Our top five picks for things to do: The next big thing in Chicago theatre (for a budget five bucks) . . . a ukulele invasion . . . a Fred Anderson tribute . . . and introducing our new feature, this week starring Robbie Fulks
Chicago's Top 40 Artistic Breakthroughs
#13—Saturday Night Live raids the improvisational comic warehouse The Second City for its inaugural cast, and the TV show’s immediate success establishes the Old Town institution as a major comedy factory. For more photos of Chicago’s artistic breakthroughs, check out the photo gallery » Related: PHOTO GALLERY » Chicago’s great artistic breakthroughs MORE TOP … Read more
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