Bohemian Boom: A guide to Pilsen
Planning a trip to Pilsen? If so, use this guide
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A Family Affair: On the Ponces' new project, On TV/Off TV
A mother-daugther team find inspiration in local TV personalities
Bitten!: Chicago-area vampire enthusiasts
The second Twilight movie comes out November 20th, andTV series such as True Blood continue to suck in new vampire fans. But for two longtime local enthusiasts, vampire stories are more than a fad
Role Call: A Who’s Who in Court Theatre’s production of The Mystery of Irma Vep
In The Mystery of Irma Vep, by Charles Ludlam, two actors play a haunted household’s worth of servants, masters, werewolves, mummies, and more in a tale that riffs on everything from the Brontës to Poe to more schlock horror flicks than you can shake a bloody severedleg at. Herein, a who’s who in the anagrammatic … Read more
Going Rogue
Don’t-miss picks for 11.18.09 through 11.24.09: Take heed, Palin: You’re not the only rogue on tour. Vagabond Opera brings klezmer cabaret to Chicago. … Plus, Moth Story Slam returns … Peter Gallagher recollects … Osgood and Kogan toast Chicago (and we toast them) … and more
Eccentric Company: On composer/lyricist Andrew Lippa
Andrew Lippa embarks on his spookiest project yet
Rock and Role: Jon Langford inspires All the Fame of Lofty Deeds
The musician Jon Langford inspires a play
The Life of Byron
Don’t-miss picks for 11.11.09 through 11.17.09: Cool jazz meets the king of klezmer … House Theatre meets rocker Jon Langford … Bartók meets the movies … Frank Lloyd Wright meets happy hour … and more
Muppet Insider
Don’t-miss picks for 11.04.09 through 11.10.09: The Muppets take Chicago … Margaret Atwood does dramatic … Stefon Harris shakes up a bebop shrine … Harold Ramis, Matt Groening, and Tony Kushner wax on … and more
The Insider: Tim Daisy
Five picks from the versatile Chicago new-music drummer whose trio, Vox Arcana, opens the Umbrella Music Festival on Saturday, Nov. 7th, at The Hideout (1354 W. Wabansia; umbrellamusic.org).