Lyric Opera Reimagines Madama Butterfly Without the Stereotypes
Matthew Ozawa shakes the Orientalist flower petals off the famous Puccini opera to offer a modern, vulnerable production.
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The Justice League of Chicago
What we learned from a new book about a vigilante group that chased down local bootleggers and extortionists in the early 1930s
A True Sign of Hospitality
How a restaurant handles a diner’s disappointment says a lot about the business and its staff.
Corn-Fed Football
Iowa’s bid for the Bears seems to be going nowhere, which leaves us only to wonder what might have been.
Joe Flamm, All Day
The Top Chef winner’s new breakfast, lunch, and dinner café is just the versatile place the West Loop needed.
Five Multilevel Modernist Homes for Sale
This week I thought we’d go back to the 1950s with some multilevel modernist homes. The standout of the bunch is the property in Hyde Park, which carries the prestige of being designed by two giants of 20th century modernist architecture, I.M. Pei and Harry Weese. Constructed in phases from the late 1950s to 1962, … Read more
