Sheer Beauty
Cloudless spring days call for transparent textures and a breezy, effortless look
Chicago Magazine
Week 6: Toxoplasma Gondii and Other Delights
Our secret is no longer ours. Sarah told Tricia, and Tricia immediately told her fiancé, Jason. Fortunately, Jason is far more interested in his fantasy baseball team than babies, so the information should die with him. Sarah’s justification for blabbing was sound, I suppose. The four of us (plus T & J’s dog, Lou) are … Read more
Theatre takes a literary-and havoc-wreaking-turn with 500 Clown
More Fun Than Lit Theory Leave Jacques Derrida to the grad students; local troupe 500 Clown Theater presents two new shows that-gasp-make literary deconstruction fun (not to mention destructive). Both Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein and Shakespeare’s Macbeth get the Clown treatment, a blend of improv and vaudevillian physicality. In 500 Clown Frankenstein, three clowns tackle the … Read more
Are We There Yet?
Finding the right cold-weather trip poses special problems. We profile five families with specific—but common—needs and locate nearby destinations to help them keep cabin fever at bay
Celebrity Beat
Summer in the city really means celebrities in the city. Seen on the scene, in the last week alone:
Thursday, June 7
Perhaps the most celeb-studded party Chicago has seen in recent years, the official Ocean’s Thirteen opening bash took place at Jerry Kleiner’s Room 21 last Thursday, following the movie’s premiere at AMC River East 21. Hosted by Vanity Fair, the party doubled as a charity event for Darfur; the cheapest ticket went for a cool $2,000. “Everything was draped in red, and it looked like the VIP-VIP-VIP room of Las Vegas’s best casino,” says guest Jonathan Landan, president of the marketing company A-Life Group. “George Clooney, Matt Damon, Don Cheadle,…
A New Order
Though he was one of its chief architects, rainmakers, and partners, Adrian Smith was recently ushered out the door here at Skidmore, Owings & Merrill. Is the celebrated 70-year-old architectural firm shrewdly remaking itself for the 21st century—or suffering through an intercity power play?
Mini to the max
RAISE high the hemlines, CROP the jackets, SHORTEN the shorts — LESS is a whole lot MORE
New on the Market – Quirky Condo in Chicago’s Old Town
List Price: $750,000 The Property: This eccentric two-bedroom condo is one of 16 units in the landmark Carl Street Studios (at 155 West Burton Place). The offbeat building began taking shape in 1927, when Sol Kogen and Edgar Miller, who had met at the School of the Art Institute, took an enormous brick Victorian mansion … Read more
Who’s Their Daddy?
Michael Wilford insists that he was only a sperm donor to Christin Harris, who gave birth to twin girls in 2003. Now, Harris is suing for child support in a textbook legal battle over who should pay
A Bubbly Personality
Here today, gone today. That’s the mantra of the city’s fickle nightlife scene. As with relationships, the minute you find a favorite spot, it either closes or relocates. But in the case of Pops for Champagne (601 N. State St.), which was loyal to its Sheffield location in Lake View Pops knows best: readers clink drinks at … Read more