Here Are the Top Five Things to Do in Chicago This Week Chicago Critics Film Festival celebrates its third year, plus more great things to do this week in the city. Read more
Aleksandar Hemon’s New Novel Tackles Zombies By Sam Worley The MacArthur ‘genius’ gives zombies the brainy treatment in his madcap new novel. Read more
Jane Austen's Sense and Sensibility is Now a Musical By Catey Sullivan Composer Paul Gordon shares how he wrote the new show, which premieres this weekend at Chicago Shakespeare Theater. Read more
Here's What's Happening in Chicago Culture This Week By Matt Pollock Billy Corgan takes a wrestling job, D'Angelo headlines North Coast, and the Art Institute gets a $400 million gift. Read more
Chicago Theater Takes on Police Brutality, Obama, and More By Zac Thompson Three political plays this spring engage in contemporary American issues. Read more
Get Your Photo Taken With Khal Drogo for $50 This Weekend By Matt Pollock The Dothraki chieftain will swing by McCormick Place for Chicago Comic & Entertainment Expo. Read more
Chicago Opera Theater Operates on a $2.9 Million Budget. Here's How. By Graham Meyer General director Andreas Mitisek shares how his company gets by on an annual budget that less than 5 percent of the Lyric Opera's. Read more
How the Conservatively Radical Architect Howard Van Doren Shaw Changed the American House By Whet Moser He came from wealth and made quiet, comfortable country homes for Chicago's wealthy. But they also quietly tell a story of social change and architectural evolution. Read more
A Museum of ‘No-Longer-Art’ Opens in Hyde Park By Jason Foumberg The Salvage Art Institute is a refuge for art in limbo. Read more
John Preus’s New Exhibition Salvages Items from Closed CPS Schools By Jason Foumberg 'An Invisible Hand' opens May 21. Read more
