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August 2010
Robbie Fulks’s Weekend Plans
Our top five picks for things to do: The next big thing in Chicago theatre (for a budget five bucks) . . . a ukulele invasion . . . a Fred Anderson tribute . . . and introducing our new feature, this week starring Robbie Fulks Read more
Furniture Revival on the North Side
By Gina Bazer
Interior designer Crystal Blackshaw recently opened Chic Antique, a new refurbished/refinished vintage furniture shop in Lakeview, proving once again that grandma’s oldies can look new and fabulous again with some artistic vision and fresh coat of paint... Read more
Positive Signs for Some Relocated CHA Residents
By Dennis Rodkin
When the Chicago Housing Authority (CHA) started moving residents out of two South Side developments nine years ago, Susan Popkin, a public-housing expert at the Urban Institute, worried that it wouldn’t turn out well for the folks who got relocated. “I had a lot of concerns that these people would not manage,” she says, “that it was really going to [harm] them." But last week, Popkin and some colleagues... Read more
Where To Go This Weekend: Spring Green, Wisconsin on the Cheap
By Catey Sullivan
Back in ye olden days, the notion of “open-air Shakespeare” was redundant: In Elizabethan England, all theater was performed outdoors. Al fresco Shakespeare endures, and few places take it outside more skillfully than the American Players Theatre in Spring Green, Wisconsin. At APT’s theatre on the hill Read more
White Stuff
By Gina Bazer
The lobby of the new Hotel Palomar Chicago, designed by Orlando Diaz-Azcuy, offers an easy formula for how to inject a space with a sense of lightness and fun: Just add white... Read more