Here Are This Week’s Top Sales and Style Events By Jenny Berg Maria Pinto’s new store, BOGA’s first brick-and-mortar spot, and discounted Italian scarves Read more
The Top Five Things to Do in Chicago This Week Jessica Lang Dance, Kendrick Lamar, Agamemnon, David Mitchell and Lana Wachowski, and SOFA Read more
Will Chi-Raq Be Good? We Might Not Know for Years By Whet Moser Spike Lee's infamous box-office bomb Bamboozled still divides critics after 15 years. Chi-Raq is already sparking a similar debate. Read more
What You Need to Know About the Chicago Dining Scene This Week By Carrie Schedler The Jean Banchet Award nominees are out, and Maple & Ash makes a very quiet debut. Read more
Paul McGee Starts Pouring at Milk Room November 16 By Penny Pollack and Graham Meyer The final piece of the Chicago Athletic Association Hotel bar scene begins taking reservations Friday. Read more
Five Things to Know About the Trailer for Spike Lee’s Chi-Raq By Tomi Obaro and Matt Pollock Early footage appears to confirm a few things you already heard—and some you may not have. Read more
Six Flicks to See at the Chicago Comedy Film Festival By Matt Pollock The fifth annual festival runs Friday and Saturday in Rogers Park. Read more
Coming Soon to Bucktown: Pork & Mindy’s By Penny Pollack and Matt Pollock Get ready for smoked meats from "Sandwich King" Jeff Mauro in the former Red Hen space. Read more
Chicagoans Respond to Spike Lee’s Chi-Raq Trailer By Tomi Obaro and Emmet Sullivan Ferrari Sheppard, Lil Durk, and other prominent locals took to Twitter to react to the film's first footage. Read more
