Swan Song
Before her death last year, the modern dancer Sybil Shearer made history, literally, by penning a book.
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Mind Over Matter
Gillion Carrara, director of the Fashion Resource Center of the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.
In Orbit
After a century of conservatism, the William Wrigley Jr. Company leads the pack with a gutsy gum concept and a series of cheeky TV ads.
Critical Mass
Noteworthy new book releases for March
Almost Famous
Photo: Audrey Cho Devin Davis at the Hideout In 1999, Devin Davis moved to Chicago from Jacksonville, Florida, lured by the same local venues and homegrown labels that attract many aspiring musicians. But once he arrived, he realized his adopted city wasn’t much into pop, his genre of choice. “I didn’t know anybody to play … Read more
The World According to Chris Ware
On the eve of a major exhibition at the Museum of Contemporary Art, the Oak Park cartoonist (along with some of his contemporaries) offers an introduction to a genre that is successfully blurring the line between literature and art.
Home Fires
What do you do when your maid won’t clean? In an acclaimed new comedy about class and gender, Wilmette native Sarah Ruhl brings her brand of postmodern magical realism to the Goodman
Pitch Man
At a meeting in L.A., the screenwriter Jay Lavender wanted to pitch Vince Vaughn on a new project, but the actor had another idea. The result: The Break-Up, Lavender’s first movie, made in Chicago.
Got Soul?
After a DePaul student placed his eternal soul on eBay, The Closer searched the site for a few locally based items that might lift his spirits.
Writers on the Record with Victoria Lautman – Peter Carey
Photograph: Carey Justine Walpole Peter Carey An Australian writer to the core, Peter Carey never strays far from his roots, despite having moved to New York City some 15 years ago. Carey’s latest novel, Theft, kicks off in a Down Under backwater, then quickly careens through jaded 1980s art worlds in Japan and New York. … Read more