Music Sidebar
Peter Margasak, John Corbett and Bill Meyer
The Reader's Guide to the Chicago Jazz Festival
Featuring Nicole Mitchell's Sonic Projections, the Kurt Elling Quintet with Ernie Watts, the Ramsey Lewis 75th birthday celebration, and much more
Food Chain / Food & Drink This Week's Food and Drink Events
Posted by Sam Worley on Thu, Sep 2, 2010 at 2:36 PM
Beer tastings, Polish cuisine, a lobster boil, and more.
Crickets / Music Early Warnings Roundup
Posted by Kevin Warwick on Thu, Sep 2, 2010 at 12:32 PM
- Sleigh Bells
"Sparse" isn't the same as "none," though, and even this week's slimmed-down Early Warnings include David Dondero at Schubas, soul master Syl Johnson with a 14-piece band at the Old Town School of Folk Music, fashion-conscious electro-club kids LMFAO at Congress Theater, and hype magnets Sleigh Bells at Metro.
Check out a more comprehensive list after the jump:
Chicagoland / Food Chain / Film / Music / Food & Drink / Performing Arts Dinner & a Show: Thursday 9/2
Posted by Whet Moser on Thu, Sep 2, 2010 at 12:06 PM
- Hyde Park Cultural Alliance/Marc Monaghan
- Nicole Mitchell
Show: Chicago Jazz Festival The annual festival kicks off today with multiple performances. Nicole Mitchell headlines today's shows, performing with "idiosyncratic pianist, scholar, and composer Anthony Davis, who rarely performs in Chicago; his restless experimental bent has carried him as far afield as opera and gamelan, but he never breaks his connection to his jazz roots," writes Peter Margasak.
5 pm, Ganz Hall, Roosevelt University, 430 S. Michigan Ave., 312-341-2238, free
Dinner: Cafecito "Prior to opening his South Loop Cuban-style cafe, Philip Ghantous was a frustrated actor-waiter with zero kitchen experience. So how the hell is it that this Lebanese-American from Peoria is now pressing the best damn Cuban sandwiches in the city?" writes Mike Sula.
26 E. Congress Pkwy., 312- 922-2233, cafecitochicago.com
Fashion Hand-Painted Clothing at Dovetail Chicago
Posted by Heather Kenny on Thu, Sep 2, 2010 at 9:03 AM
Chicagoland / Visual Art Morning Art: Anat Pollack
Posted by Julia Thiel on Thu, Sep 2, 2010 at 8:41 AM
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This week's crossword: Food Substitutes (PDF)
Your City Council
Now more than ever, it's important to follow what our 50 aldermen are up to. Are our representatives up to the task of telling the mayor "no" once in a while, or, better yet, of coming up with an alternative vision of Chicago government? Read our guide and decide for yourself what their prospects are.
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Movies To See Today
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The Kids Are All Right
Plenty of movies strive for topicality, but occasionally something like The Kids Are All Right slaps you in the face with the world
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Davis, Highland Park, Landmark's Century Centre and Wilmette Theatre
Animal Kingdom
In the opening shot of this tense Australian noir, a comfy domestic scene turns lurid and tragic in the blink of an eye,
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Century 12 and CineArts 6 and Landmark's Century Centre
Winter's Bone
Writer-director Debra Granik made her feature debut with Down to the Bone (2004), a stark working-class drama with Vera Farmiga giving a breakout
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Highland Park and Pipers Alley
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The Reader's Guide to the Chicago Jazz Festival Featuring Nicole Mitchell's Sonic Projections, the Kurt Elling Quintet with Ernie Watts, the Ramsey Lewis 75th birthday celebration, and much more
The List: September 2-8, 2010 Critics' Choices and other notable shows: Scissor Sisters, Rhys Chatham and Bill Orcutt, Michael Rother's Hallogallo 2010, and more
Chicago Jazz Festival Afterparties But wait, there's more . . .
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Who Is Bibi Merhdad? An alter ego for A----, an art contest for hesher doodlers, a box of Sonnenzimmers, and more
Photo Pit: Iggy & the Stooges August 29, Riviera Theatre
Taste of Chicago Caramels with a sense of place, from chocolate and chiles for Pilsen to beer and peanuts for Wrigleyville
Gelato Time Fourteen spots for the sweet treat
The Draft Shared-Kitchen Ordinance in All Its Glory A draft shared-kitchen ordinance has dropped.
Small Bites The sales tax went down, but did your favorite restaurant get the memo?
In the Neighborhood Randolph Row and Fulton Market
Girl With the Goods Stephanie Izard's Girl & the Goat justifies the hoopla. Plus: above-average Chinese in Bucktown and new twists on an old Evanston Italian favorite.
Finally, a Chicago Fringe Festival Is this what America's best theater town's been missing? Sarah Mikayla Brown and Vinnie Lacey think so.
Thinking Outside the Black Box Oracle Productions repositions itself as "public access theater."
A Ruhl That Doesn't Rule A lesser effort by the Pulitzer-nominated playwright at Piven
Even Banksy Has to Follow the Rules in Proco Joe's Ward Where's the line between street art and graffiti for artsy alderman Proco "Joe" Moreno?
Twenty-First Century Skeletons Stanley Greenberg's intimate portraits of buildings in progress, at the Art Institute
Books Good! Or: How to simultaneously condescend to the masses and sneer at the elitists.
Even Earlier Royko The son of the legendary newsman unearths work from his first columnist gig, at age 22.
Royko, in Love and Marriage "Royko in Love" is a collection of love letters Mike Royko wrote to the girl down the street
A Cabbie's Tale Local noir, from the front seat of a taxi
Hand-Painted Clothing at Dovetail Chicago Local artist Sarah McLaughlin shows her clothing and jewelry at Dovetail this weekend.
Garmental.com Puts It All Together Garmental.com highlights outfits from local designers and shops.
Public Enemy Numéro Un An ambitious French gangster epic leaves Michael Mann's Dillinger biopic in the shade.
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