I Need to Find My Remote
Remember that Gary Sinise sighting from a few weeks back? That particular CSI:NY episode airs tonight on WBBM-Channel 2 at 9 p.m., according to today’s
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A Visit from the Alabama Crew
My dad comes to Chicago once a year. He’s a born and bred Alabamian, and he says it like it is. I like to take his “frankness” as an opportunity to look at Chicago in a different light. Herein, some of his observations from his visit over Thanksgiving weekend.
Things that went over well:
- Jersey Boys. My whole family loved the show, even after I told them how much we paid for tickets (close to one month’s rent).
- The Garfield Park Conservatory
- H & M
- Cocktails at the top of the Hancock building on Thanksgiving night
- The Billy Goat, which my mom insists on calling “Billy Goat Hole”…
Behind the (Curtain) Wall: the New Spertus
In Chicago, a city with major architectural chops, it’s pretty bold to say that one building "catalyzes the renewal of the Chicago school of architecture." But, hey, the new Spertus Institute is one bold building, so its president Howard Sulkin (who said that), isn’t far off the mark.
If you want to check it out, it’s at 610 S. Michigan Ave. Doors won’t open to the public until November 30th, but everybody is already talking about it. Consider that it landed on Chicago‘s list of the top 10 masterpieces before construction was even completed; when we did a companion online survey, readers voted…
On Youth
Francis Ford Coppola needed a way out of his slump. So he called an old friend at the University of Chicago.
Oy to the World
Balkan Beat Box blends klezmer brass with hip-hop, dub, funk, and folk. The duo will play at Logan Square Auditorium Dec. 7th.
All Lacquered Up
With its first new album in several years, Shellac is scheduled to play at Hideout this month
Indigo Girl
A new book by Chicago author Rachel Louis Snyder explores the complexities of the global marketplace by trailing a quintessential product: jeans.
Under Surveillance
Step inside the box. For the next hour, everything you do will be recorded by 24 video cameras positioned at every possible angle. Sound freaky? It didn’t to Metro owner Joe Shanahan, pictured here, one of several local cultural luminaries who were filmed for an hour in a cube designed by Streeterville artist Lincoln Schatz. (Asked to do something that represents who he is, Shanahan, an avid record collector, spun vinyl; other invitees painted and lifted weights.) For a show at Art Basel Miami in December, computers will slice and dice the images, and segue them into one another in no apparent order, a style reminiscent of another Schatz video—this one in the lobby of the brand-new Spertus Museum—that jumbles scenes of the building’s construction.
A First Brush with Moviemaking!
Here at Chicago magazine, we’re trying something new. Consider it a little “experiment,” if you will. We’ve decided to take a traditional story—a profile of the supercool DJ Colette, by the music writer Mark Guarino—and turn it into a short documentary film. Five years ago, this wasn’t the business of magazines. But today, magazines have two audiences: one for the print version, and one of for the Web. And for you Web folks, every sort of storytelling device—from podcasts to short films to blogs—is fair game…
The Blip – December 2007
Bright spots on the month’s cultural radar