Arny Granat of Jam Productions says promoters will be trying to hold down prices this concert season. Genesis tickets, for example, will be going for a mere $49.50.
The effort to save Bronzeville's Metropolitan Community Church was among the scrappiest of those honored by the Landmarks Preservation Council of Illinois
Lynda Barry's The Good Times Are Killing Me has no New York track record and no name stars, but Cullen, Henaghan, and Platt are remounting it anyway. It opens Sunday at the Body Politic.
When the art market ran out of gas, the New Art Examiner ran into trouble. According to managing editor Allison Gamble, the Chicago-based monthly is pulling back, cutting down, and trying to scare up about $60,000.
Concern about security for the city's water supply set things back a bit, but Lookingglass executive director Jacqueline Russell says the theater's new home is set to open in June.
The movie hounds of the Alliance Francaise Cine-Club will have to survive without the club's volunteer programmers, Avisheh Mohsenin and Kai-Duc Luong, who have quit in protest.
Since their tenants went bust last summer, Marshall Holleb and his partners have been running the Chicago Theatre themselves--and things are looking up.