Our top five picks for things to do: With a week this flush, we hardly miss Chicago’s favorite season. On tap: An indie-rock icon returns (again) . . . fall theatre ignites with a sizzle . . . furry fashion from the pages of Vogue . . . and weekend plans from the director of Ballhawks
LUCKY CATCH: A first-time filmmaker scores the elusive actor to narrate a quirky Cubs doc, showing on September 11th at the Music Box Theatre
Our top five picks for things to do this week: Hop on, hop off, get down . . . bouncy castles for big kids . . . a pocket guide to Jazz Fest . . . what the lovely Lilli Carré is up to . . . and more
POWER CHORD: The soul music legend and the Wilco frontman record a new album together
POCKET GUIDE: A cultural short-list for September, in order of buzz
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
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…
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.
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…
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
