Neality TV
Tapping into nostalgia for classic shows and movies, Neal Sabin has built plucky Weigel Broadcasting—operator of WCIU, Me-TV, and the new This—into a regional TV dynamo
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For Real
A fresh start for Twista
Found: The Late Night Late Show
“It’s Garry Shandling, the Muppet Show, and Conan O’Brien rolled into one.”
Fill ’er Up
The guys behind Sound-Bar, Y, and Zentra have long provided hot spots for the very young and restless, but their glam new venture, Fuel Kitchen & Cocktail Lounge, caters more toward the latter.
Boys Gone Wild
The Five
Don’t-miss events for 05.27.09 through 06.02.09
1. Win or Lose @ Highland Park Movie Theater
2. Unwigged & Unplugged @ Chicago Theatre
3. Do-Division @ Division and Damen …
Modern Wing, A Guide
The completion of the $300-million Modern Wing by the starchitect Renzo Piano bumps the Art Institute of Chicago up a notch in the museum world. When the 264,000-square-foot addition opens on May 16th, the museum will display nine times as many contemporary art works as it did in the past and boast the title of the second-largest art institution in the United States (up a spot from third). Here, a primer
If You Only Have an Hour…
The contemporary art curator, James Rondeau, weighs in with five must-see works from the new Modern Wing.
Deluxe Staycation
The Five
Spend Memorial Day in Chicago—and love it—with these don’t-miss events for the long weekend:
1. The Crowd You’re
in With @ Goodman
2. Eric Bogosian @ The Gift
3. Warm/Cool Decorator @ Second Bedroom …
Color Scheme
Angel Otero takes his paintings—and his buzz—to Art Chicago
The Lost Boy
In 1908, Chicago’s chief of police shot to death a Russian-born Jewish immigrant who had come to the chief’s Lincoln Park home. One hundred years later, Aleksandar Hemon, another European who has made Chicago his home, used that tale as a springboard for his acclaimed novel The Lazarus Project. Hemon followed in the path of several historians who had already taken on that same story—yet despite those combined investigations, the circumstances behind the immigrant’s death remain a mystery