Free Beer, Blago, Black Cats
Don’t-miss events for 09.30.09 through 10.06.09: New LaBute … scenes from the Great Plague … puppets from the dark side—and then there’s the free beer and tours of Blago’s campaign office
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Books: Futurama
The “pre-eminent literary chronicler of the technological age” probes happiness
The (Super) Natural
Audrey Niffenegger struck publishing gold with her best-selling first novel, The Time Traveler’s Wife, recently made into a movie. Now the Chicago author is back with another story tinged with the otherworldly—ghosts this time. Can the new novel live up to high expectations—and the $5-million payday it fetched?
A New Voice
An American Latino classic comes to the stage
5 Theatre Picks
Don’t-miss events for 09.23.09 through 09.29.09: Top shows from this week’s theatre bill; for our full Fall Theatre Preview, pick up the October issue of Chicago, on stands now. Plus: X’s and O’s from a real-life Gossip Girl and free jazz in Hyde Park
Honest Abe, Avant-garde
Gay, black, and a descendant of slaves, the Tony-winning choreographer Bill T. Jones mined his complex feelings about Abraham Lincoln to create a capstone dance for the Ravinia Festival
Six Degrees of Misha
In advance of Baryshnikov’s return to the Windy City
The Audacity of 'Hope'
Don’t-miss picks for 09.16.09 through 09.22.09: Ravinia wraps with a biggie … Thomas Frank weighs in on Kansas … Beer returns for one night only … and in Freebies: Joffrey alfresco, plus Dybek, Kotlowitz, and Baryshnikov sightings
Seeing Red
Don’t-miss picks for 09.09.09 through 09.15.09: Something’s in the water this week: Redmoon gets wackier … Del Close returns to the screen … R.E.M.’s Peter Buck plays a starter-band stage … Niffenegger and Hemon go head to head … plus, CSO tickets for crazy cheap
Oprah's Michigan Avenue Kickoff Party
The queen of media shuts down a stretch of Michigan Avenue to host her 24th season kickoff party.