Mike Kinsella’s Part-Time Job Is His College Band
The singer thought he’d left his college emo band behind when he graduated. But American Football is enjoying an unexpected resurgence.
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A Brief Timeline of Devil in the White City’s Film Gridlock
Hollywood has played a dragged-out game of hot potato with adapting the film, which is finally heading to Hulu as a series.
This Weekend, Two People Play 30 Cellos. In a Pool.
Katinka Kleijn discusses Water on the Bridge, which she and Lia Kohl perform at Eckhart Public Pool on Saturday.
The Everyone Guide to Cantigny Park
Wheaton —How to spend an afternoon at the 500-acre estate if you’re bringing your … Army veteran grandpa The First Division Museum (admission is included in the park entrance fee: $5 per carload on weekdays, $10 on weekends) traces U.S. military history through the artifacts and artillery of a single infantry division. Most impressive: the … Read more
Stumbling on a Very Hidden Art Gallery
Squint and you’ll think you’re in Paris, not a suburban alley.
Rub Elbows With Literary Greats
Downers Grove/La Grange/Naperville —Anderson’s Bookshop hosts more than 400 events a year at its three locations. Known for boosting local luminaries in the making, as it did with Veronica Roth (Divergent) and former Chicagoan John Green (The Fault in Our Stars), the minichain is also a must-stop for international megastars: J.K. Rowling made one of … Read more
The Funeral Parlor With Mini-Golf
A chat with Roger Ahlgrim of Ahlgrim Family Funeral Services in Palatine, quite possibly the world’s only funeral home with putting greens
35 Acres of Weirdness at the Volo Auto Museum
Volo —No, you won’t find Pee-wee Herman’s bike in the basement of the Alamo. That’s because it’s at the Volo Auto Museum, a time capsule of all things — well, just plain all things. Here, five highlights. Oprah’s “Biggest Splurge Ever” The talk show host gifted herself a $365,000 1996 Bentley Azure on her 42nd birthday so … Read more
The Mural Capital of the Southland
Take a driving tour through the oeuvre of a trompe l’oeil master.
Have Some Art With Your Particle Physics at Fermilab
Batavia —Ever wondered about the artistic possibilities of advanced accelerator technology, dark matter, and colliding neutrinos? No? Well, the people at the Fermilab Art Gallery have. The exhibition space at the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory has been showing the work of artists with backgrounds in science — or those with practices conceptually linked to science — for nearly 40 … Read more