Lolla Alert

Thursday night I got the opportunity to chat up former Jane's Addiction frontman and Lollapalooza founder Perry Farrell. Farrell was in town promoting Galapalooza, an annual fundraiser held the night before Lolla (this year, it's July 31st; tickets are $350) benefiting Chicago Park District partner the Parkways Foundation. This year's Galapalooza is expected to draw about 1,000 people, mostly VIP Lolla attendees. And yes, Farrell will be there, too...

Sale of the Week—At a Loss in Northbrook

By Dennis Rodkin

List Price: $1.85 million
Sale Price: $1.65 million
The Property: Built in 1940, when Northbrook was a sleepy little village, this genteel 12-room house evokes that simpler era with its stone gateposts and tall trees, its large screened sunroom, its swimming pool and broad lawn. But thanks to a successful kitchen...

Glam Ladies at Louis Vuitton and the Return of the Chloe Girl

If there's a fashion moment that's evoked a lot lately, it's the mythic glamour of the oh-so-80's Thierry Mugler shows in Paris. Marc Jacobs surprised everyone by summoning this feeling with his show last Sunday. Forget the sexy mess of last Spring—the Jacobs lady this season is very "done."

The Vuitton show confirmed it: we're going to be seeing a lot of pleated pants come fall. I saw the trend worn by...

Week 42: Fight the Power

Sarah hijacked this entry, which is fine with me. After all, it's her uterus; maybe it should be her words, too.

At some point after Jeff turned off Napoleon Dynamite—which I never really wanted to watch—I went back to bed and fell asleep. When I woke up around 1 a.m., Jeff was snoring in our bed, his dad was snoring in the guest room, and his mom was snoring on the basement couch because she was sick and didn't want to keep Jeff's dad awake. I couldn't go anywhere. I was still having these terrible constipation pains, so I took a bunch of magazines and pillows into the bathroom and put on some music...

The Union versus The Onion

By Rebecca Little

Cyprus Thrill
Sure, EU membership is monumental and all, but Cyprus just scored entry to the real power club: Chicago’s 11th annual European Union Film Festival. The first-timer joins 25 other countries for this year’s fest, which features a record 61 flicks. Things kick off 7 p.m. Friday the 7th with Estrellita, a Slovenian film about a famous violinist whose instrument...

A Winter’s Tale

By Jeff Ruby

Lately, I've been thinking about joining a Polar Bear Club—you know, those maniacs who load up on Bloody Marys, strip down to nothing at the North Avenue beach, and hop into the freezing lake for charity. Then I heard about Sean Cooper. Read more

Master of the House

By Sarah Preston

Stay, Manor's heir apparent, is slated for a late April/early May opening Read more

Court Reporter

By Nathaniel Zimmer

How to navigate a Japanese food court Read more

Critical Mass

By Anne Halliday & Cassie Walker

Noteworthy new releases in March Read more

Shopper: June Blaker

By Rebecca Little

She's bringing her impeccable eye for sleek up-and-coming designers to a new River North venture Read more