Best of Theatre 2012: Ten Home-Grown Productions That Wowed Us

By Catey Sullivan

Chicago theatre brought its A-game this year with shows from Goodman, Lookingglass, and others impressing theatre buffs from all over the city and beyond. Read more

Peter 2 Boots at Topman

By Bryan Smith

Great sales on men’s shoes are a regular thing at Topman, but full-price can still be pretty tempting. Read more

Quilter Extraordinaire Sarah Nishiura

By Alice Oglethorpe

While leafing through the latest issue of Martha Stewart Living, I saw a story about a Chicago-based artist who makes beautiful quilts. Her name is Sarah Nishiura and her mother taught her how to quilt when she was 10 years old. Read more

How Charles Dickens's Screw-Up Chicago Brother Turned the Second City Against Boz

By Whet Moser

When Charles Dickens toured America for the last time, he gave Chicago the cold shoulder, as well as his widowed Chicago sister-and-law. The local press attacked him as a Scrooge and a hypocrite, but the real story was a sad and complex one closer to Bleak House than A Christmas Carol. Read more

A Fire in West Englewood, Charges Filed on Christmas Eve

By Whet Moser

A hot plate used for warmth in an unheated West Englewood apartment that lacked smoke detectors is believed to have caused the deaths of two young, unattended children on early Saturday morning. Read more

Best Reads of 2012

By Emmet Sullivan

Our favorite books and articles of the year include a disturbingly accurate portrayal of some real-life upper crust Chicagoans; a story about the New York Pizza wars; and a graphic novel about a kinder, gentler Darth Vader Read more

Mark Cross Grace Large Trunk Bag

By Elizabeth Fenner

Grace Kelly made this an “It Bag” long ago. Read more

Dish Garden Class at Sprout

By Alice Oglethorpe

Is your green thumb itching even though the weather is chilly and the ground hard? Sprout Home is hosting a class called Dish Gardens on December 29 and January 12. Read more

Johnnie Walker Blue Label Gentlemen’s Holiday Escape

December 6, 2012--Chicago magazine celebrated the holidays with Master of Whiskey Kyle McHugh at The Drake Hotel. Typhanie Monique performed from her new album, Yuletide Groove, as the fashionable men in attendance sipped Johnnie Walker Blue Label and enjoyed complimentary services from Haberdash's master barber, Charles Lenox, and custom fittings from Oak Street Bootmakers and Trunk Club. Kyle McHugh treated guests to a Johnnie Walker tasting while they waited for their custom engraved bottles. Read more

Christmas Infographics, Circa 1908

By Whet Moser

Giant teddy bears, giant dolls, and other ways of expressing seventeen million dollars worth of Christmas goodies in terrifyingly nightmarish fashion. Read more

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