This week only! The Ten: double-dip pairings of top-notch concerts (and one musical flick), each featuring one suburban and one city option. Now, get out there and pursue happiness with these don’t-miss events for the week of 07.01.09 through 07.06.09 …
Wilco (the album)
Critically acclaimed author Wade Rouse returns with his third memoir
Don’t-miss events for 06.24.09 through 06.30.09: Cool As Ice @ The Neo-Futurarium … Shellac @ Bottom Lounge … Gay Men’s Chorus @ Lakefront
Mark Richard Smith nearly died making his first film. Is his passion enough to get it to audiences?
Muriel Newman excelled at the art of collecting. One expert called the paintings that graced her Gold Coast apartment “the greatest private collection of abstract expressionists in the world”—and Chicago’s art scene shuddered when she bequeathed most of those paintings to a New York museum. But no one seemed to blame Newman, whose gregarious personality and boundless generosity endeared her to local art institutions and patrons. Nearly a year after her death, a look back at the colorful 94-year life of an unforgettable grande dame
Tarot cards play a small but pivotal role in Up, an offbeat drama by the playwright Bridget Carpenter. South Side reader Doña Cristina
Artist Joel Ross, on the photo Be Gay, part of Joel Ross Roadside: A Presentation of Recent Field Experiments and Prototypes
High on our summer to-do list: Attend a concert by the 15-year-old classical music prodigy Conrad Tao
Don’t-miss free events for 06.17.09 through 06.23.09: Bob Odenkirk and Archer Prewitt, times two … South Shore Opera Co’s season finale … big Plans in Millennium Park
