Uncharted Books' Tanner McSwain Wants to be the Gertrude Stein of Logan Square By Calley Nelson The secondhand bookseller toasts four years of business (and shares his 10 most popular titles). Read more
The Top Five Things to Do in Chicago This Week The Flick, Ginger Krebs, Multiple Dimensions, UChicago Presents, and Corky Siegel’s Chamber Blues Read more
The Goodman Theatre Brings 2666 to Life By Novid Parsi Enter the sprawling universe of Roberto Bolaño’s haunting multipart opus. Read more
This Artist Makes Art out of Radioactive Earth. The Results Are Unusual Jeremy Bolen buried photographic film at the Jackpile uranium mine near Albuquerque, New Mexico. Read more
Shakespeare at 400: Why Is This Dead White Man Still Relevant By Zac Thompson Chicago Shakespeare Company’s yearlong festival shows how the playwright’s themes can be adapted to all times and all places. Read more
The Art Institute Has a New President By Matt Pollock Longtime contemporary curator James Rondeau will take over as president and director of the Art Institute February 16. Read more
This Is the Greatest Group of Midwestern Artists You've Never Heard Of By Jason Foumberg A major new exhibit at the Smart Museum of Art pays homage to the greatest group of Midwestern artists you’ve never heard of. Read more
The Five Best Things to Do in Chicago This Week Jake Shimabukuro, Spektral Quartet, Chicago Winter Bike Swap, Mothers and Sons, and Return of the Exquisite Corpse Read more
Next Season Will Be Lyric Opera’s First Without Verdi or Puccini By Graham Meyer But the opera house says this doesn’t mean it's charting a new course. Read more
Six Things to See at Chicago's Yearlong Shakespeare Festival By Matt Pollock Rock 'n' roll Macbeth, hip-hop Othello, and David Carl's Gary Busey's One-Man Hamlet Read more
