Straight Talk
Artist Joel Ross, on the photo Be Gay, part of Joel Ross Roadside: A Presentation of Recent Field Experiments and Prototypes
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First Class
High on our summer to-do list: Attend a concert by the 15-year-old classical music prodigy Conrad Tao
Three Cheers for Free
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
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
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.