Beauty and the Beat
Jade Simmons Part of Ravinia’s Rising Stars series. February 29th at 8 p.m.
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Don’t Miss: Model Citizen
James Blunt, Citizen Cope come to town
Don’t Miss: A Walk in the Clouds
Visitors wade through helium-filled “pillows” that float, floor to ceiling, through a 2,000-square-foot gallery in the Loyola University Museum of Art.
Fashionistas: A Casting Call
Yet another reality show taping. Yawn.
Still, there are those of you out there who might be interested in this: a behind-the-scenes-of-the-fashion-industry reality show. They’re coming to Chicago to tape on February 2.
The CW network apparently is launching some sort of show that blends elements of America’s Next Top Model and Project Runway. They are looking for stylists, publicity people, and anyone who works in the fashion business side…
You Should Know… Nora Dunn
In between Entourage and Judd Apatow’s latest flick, the Saturday Night Live vet tackles something gag-free: Off-Loop theatre.
Arc Moderne
IIT’s Crown Hall is transformed into a “rolling landscape” for an intimate Hubbard Street Dance Chicago series.
Celebrity Beat: Politicking with Pete Wentz
Fall Out Boy bassist and Wilmette native Pete Wentz hosted a fundraiser for presidential hopeful Barack Obama Tuesday night at Lakeview Broadcasting Company. “I’ve been an Obama supporter since he announced he was campaigning,” Wentz told me. “I was aware of him as a senator, but I wasn’t as engaged as I probably should’ve been.”
I Geek Out on Dance V. 692
I hear there are still a few spaces open to the public for the Hubbard Street-IIT show this weekend at Crown Hall. (For tickets, call 312-850-9744.) It’s a noteworthy pairing—and not just because Hubbard Street is the city’s leading contemporary company.
Over the past few years writing about culture, I’ve interviewed a number of dancers and choreographers who talk about the influence of architecture on their art. The first time someone mentioned it—it might have been the Chicago-born (New York-based) choreographer Lar Lubovich—I remember thinking how incongruent it sounded. I mean, a building is a fixed thing; a dancer is anything but…
Long Time Coming
We chat with director Brett Morgen, whose film Chicago 10 finally hits area movie theatres February 29th.
Hey Girl, This is Freaky
Before I get into the goo, let me just say: I’m usually a fan of the Museum of Contemporary Art‘s performance series as curated by Peter Taub. It’s challenging stuff, often culled from performance groups abroad. Whether it’s music, theatre, or dance—the one commonality is that there is generally a strong visual art element. Sometimes I think you could snap a picture mid-scene and create an image worth hanging in the art galleries upstairs…