Five Must-Read Books

On our shortlist: The Chocolate Money by Ashley Prentice Norton, Building Stories by Chris Ware, and more Read more

Chicago Architecture Foundation, Classical Composers Team Up for Open House Chicago

A look at fall’s most unusual cultural alliance Read more

Roberta Duchak on Coaching Russell Crowe

The musical director at Drury Lane Oakbrook trained Russell Crowe for his role as Javert in the film Les Misérables, out Dec. 14. Read more

Andrew Hinderaker on Writing Plays from the Gut

Andrew Hinderaker, 33, penned Dirty, playing through Nov. 18 at Gift Theatre. Read more

Fall Culture Guide

By Rachel Bertsche, Cassie Walker Burke, Elly Fishman, Kevin McKeough, Graham Meyer, Kevin Nance, Matthew Reddin, Matt Schur, Catey Sullivan, and Emmet Sullivan

Fall is typically Chicago culture's golden season, but this one gleams platinum. We're welcoming a Broadway-bound musical, an art blockbuster, first-class concerts, and the final installment of a razor-sharp literary trilogy—plus new plays, dances, movies, and more, from a crop of turbocharged Chicagoans. Read more

Alfonso Soriano: A Smarter, More Experienced Approach?

By Whet Moser

A year after one of his worst seasons as a pro, one of the last remaining Cubs veterans has turned in a bounce-back season, driving in a ton of runs and anchoring a young team. What's behind Soriano's improvement? Read more

Where to Go This Weekend: Atkins, Iowa

By Catey Sullivan

This weekend, you can have a generous portion of monstrousness with your merlot, as Bloomsbury Farm hosts an under-the-moon, five-course dinner served by zombies in the dead center of a cornfield... Read more

Garry McCarthy's New Chicago Crime Strategy: Social Networks, 'Hot People'

By Whet Moser

The CPD's top cop came out of Newark and New York as a disciple of William Bratton and the broken-windows theory of criminology. In Chicago, McCarthy has embraced two more approaches to combat the city's very different problems: social networks and legitimacy, under the influence of two Chicago-trained sociologists. Read more

Blago and the Bard

By Matt Schur

The former governor wants to teach Shakespeare in prison Read more

Are Big Donors Really Ditching Obama?

By Geoffrey Johnson

DONOR DANCE: Reports that Chicago’s major bundlers have abandoned the president are greatly exaggerated Read more

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