The older-woman-with-a-younger-man trope is having a moment. With films like Babygirl, The Idea of You, and May December released in recent years, it’s not surprising to see a series like […]
Hull House and its founder Jane Addams have long been recognized as pioneers in citizenship development and education for low-income and immigrant communities. A new book expands on that history […]
El último sueño de Frida y Diego premiered at the Lyric Opera last weekend, and it was one of the most thrilling operas I have seen. The music was written […]
Actor Lionel Boyce is likely best known by most Chicagoans as the kind-hearted pastry chef Marcus Brooks on the series The Bear, for which he received an Emmy nomination in […]
Louis Sullivan and Daniel Burnham lived parallel lives. Both were born in the East and came to Chicago in their youth. Both were poor students and relatively aimless until they […]
In 1998, the short and sweet musical The Drowsy Chaperone was created in Toronto as a bachelor party gift for creators Bob Martin and Janet Van de Graaff. The first […]
With a fascinating program celebrating the change of seasons and the Americana of Sun Valley, Idaho, violinist Benjamin Beilman, festival Music Director Alasdair Neale, and festival musicians entertained large audiences […]
This year, March 17 was not only Chicago’s annual St. Patty’s Day celebration, but also an observation of St. Pattie Gonia’s Day at Pilsen’s Thalia Hall. The Nebraska-born, Oregon-residing environmental […]
Based on the wildly popular 2021 novel by Andy Weir (The Martian) and adapted by master genre storyteller Drew Godard (also The Martian, as well as The Cabin in the […]
With the opening of Robert Weinberg’s poem—“On North Broadway/Middle aged women roll their pushcarts into Rexalls”—you know you’re not in Kansas any more. Instead, you’re back nearly 40 years to a […]
In the mid-1960s, Anne Keegan wore white gloves to apply for a job as a reporter at City News Bureau of Chicago. She recalled riding the elevator to the wire […]
Editor’s Note: the following article contains spoilers about Peaky Blinders. Here’s the thing about the Netflix original series Peaky Blinders: if you know it, you love it. Unfortunately, for some […]