If you are feeling overwhelmed by the myriad details of putting your seder table together, burned your brisket, or just don’t want to cook this year, here are some places we like that you can turn to for help…
An avid theatre goer, Penny Pollack, Chicago magazine’s dining editor, may have been the only person in the audience of Beauty and the Beast on Wednesday night who did not have a fresh memory of the 1991 Disney movie on which this touring musical production is based…
I’m a big fan of classical music’s great and powerful dead guys (e.g., Mozart, Beethoven); but that’s just it: they’re dead. Giving feedback is kind of a challenge. So when eighth blackbird, the decorated contemporary-classical sextet, brings a freshly composed piece to Chicago…
Our top five picks for things to do this week: A Coward extension; a free Hitchcock screening with a classic Hollywood star; short, cheap cinema; and more
When you attend the theatre, little things can break the spell of the performance on stage. Maybe the person sitting next to you has an unsettling horse laugh. Or maybe some trivial detail of the performance causes your mind to wander…
Falling back on his experience with photo opportunities—a politician’s bread and butter—Rod Blagojevich managed to squeak out of a three-man boardroom showdown without getting fired…
Spin Cycle: The boys who play the title character discuss the toughest move in the show: a finale of pirouettes
Now that Daniel Barenboim is gone, CSO-goers have fewer chances to see conducting from the piano. Last night’s all-Mozart concert, where Mitsuko Uchida conducted and soloed in piano concerti nos. 17 and 27, scratched that jack-of-all-trades itch…
Whether you think Trust, a new play that opened Saturday at the Lookingglass Theatre, is a wallop-packing drama about cyberstalking or a made-for-television issues-movie poorly translated to the stage, Allison Torem is coming in for some universal praise…
As the magazine’s 40th anniversary approaches, we rank the 40 best albums ever by Chicago artists
