First Class
A runway show celebrates 75 years of student fashion in Chicago
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The Blip
Bright spots on the month’s cultural radar
Call the Babysitter
5 shows you can’t take your kids to (but shouldn’t miss)
Bucky Stops Here
Buckminster Fuller: Starting with the Universe*
The first retrospective of the visionary’s work in decades, this exhibition reintroduces the man who invented the geodesic dome and coined the term “Spaceship Earth.” While calling…
Dean’s List
Dean & Britta*
Andy Warhol begat the Factory, which begat The Velvet Underground and Nico, which begat Dean Wareham, an indie rocker who has made a career of emulating the Velvet’s chiming songs—first with bands Galaxie 500 and Luna, then with his Luna bandmate and wife, Britta Phillips, playing Nico to his Lou Reed. Now the couple comes full circle…
Weekend Photos: Left Field Screening at Portage Theater
Question: What do you get when you screen a film about a Humboldt Park kickball league, shot in part in local bars, at the Portage Theater, the proud new owner of a liquor license? Answer: fire twirlers, a marching band, go-go dancers, and lots of drinking. We sent our photographer to the premiere of Left Field Thursday. Browse our photos…
Talk of the Town
Anna Davlantes creates a talk show with an unlikely angle: the opinions of ordinary Chicagoans.
Solo Act
An avant-garde rocker with a Joni Mitchell sound
You Should Know … Regina Taylor
The successful black playwright shares a secret—namely, her white Russian muse
Blow Hard
“Free” jazz pioneer Fred Anderson turns 80 in March, and the five-day celebration at his club, the Velvet Lounge, begins…