Archives from 2016

Arts & Culture, Art Review Oct 19, 2016
Recommended
Ben Rivers’s dystopian films light up the Renaissance Society

The British artist’s first U.S. solo exhibition imagines a postapocalyptic future through the lens of a disturbing present.
- By Sara Cohen
- Tags: Art Review, Ben Rivers, Urth, Renaissance Society, Biosphere 2, Slow Action, Mark von Schlegell, Charles Darwin, On the Origin of Species, Somerset England, Mary Shelley, Janice Kerbel, Recommended

Blogs, Bleader Sep 26, 2016
The Chicago History Museum, Zanies, and more places to watch tonight's presidential debate

Watch Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump's first official debate at these Chicago venues.
- By Sara Cohen
- Tags: Do This, News, Politics, Election, Hillary Clinton, Donald Trump, presidential debate, Chicago History Museum, Kitty Kurth, Logan Center for the Arts, Institute of Politics, Harris School of Public Policy, Jaks Tap, DS Tequila Company, Museum of Broadcast Communications Young Professionals Board, Sidetrack, Chicago LBTQ for Hillary, LBTQ, Saint Xavier University, Zanies, comedy, Mystery Sciences, Tim Slagle, FitzGerald's, Wise Owl

Blogs, Bleader Sep 16, 2016
Riot Fest, Bang Bang Pie's Backyard Dinner, and more things to do in Chicago this weekend

Wicker Park & West Town Lit Fest, "More Strange Than True," and more happenings from September 16-18.
- By Sara Cohen
- Tags: Arts, Do This, Wicker Park & West Town Lit Fest, Riot Fest, Housewarming, Adds Donna, Belle Boggs, Eula Biss, The Art of Waiting, Harvest Chicago Contemporary Dance Festival, More Strange Than True, Political Portrait Slam, City Made Fest, Bang Bang Pie, Backyard Dinner

Blogs, Bleader Sep 12, 2016
Adam Green's Aladdin, the Reader's Cocktail Challenge, and more things to do in Chicago this week

The Fifth Star Awards, "Every Building in Baghdad," and more happenings from September 12-15.
- By Sara Cohen
- Tags: Arts, Do This, All Alone Together, iO, Kelly McGuigan, James Dugan, Brittany Bookbinder, Adam Green, Adam Green's Aladdin, Colson Whitehead, The Underground Railroad, Natalie Moore, Slurring Bee Tournament of Champions, Working in America, Harold Washington Library, Alex Kotlowitz, Studs Terkel, Fifth Star Awards, Millennium Park, Rifat Chadirji, Every Building in Baghdad, Fall Cocktail Challenge

Blogs, Bleader Sep 9, 2016
Hip Hop Summerfest, Windy City Wine Festival, and more things to do in Chicago this weekend

Shock Top Oyster Fest, 48 Hour Film Project, and more happenings from September 9-11.
- By Sara Cohen
- Tags: Music, Arts, Do This, Hip Hop Summerfest, Slick Rick, Doug E Fresh, Twista, Windy City Wine Festival, Buckingham Fountain, Festival de la Villita, Mexican Independence Day, Little Village, Plaza Garibaldi, Ramon Ayala, Conjunto Primavera, World Music Festival, Anjna and Rajna Swaminathan, Ragamala: A Celebration of Indian Classical Music, Alsarah & the Nubatones, Mulatu Astatke, Chicago Theater Memorial Bike Ride, Tom Bateman, Abena Joan Brown, Judy Fabjance, Harlan Haimes, Maddy Hickey, Steve Juergens, Dennis Kelley, Chuck O’Connor, Lois Weisberg, Roscoe Village, Oyster Fest, Waco Brothers, Bruce in the USA, Can I Kick It?, street art, Chicago Truborn, Ravenswood ArtWalk, Big Teeth Productions, Century Mallet Instrument Service, 48 Hour Film Project, short film

Blogs, Bleader Sep 2, 2016
North Coast Music Festival, a Labor Day clambake, and more things to do in Chicago this weekend

The Great American Lobster Fest, Oddball Comedy Festival, and more happenings from September 2-5.
- By Sara Cohen
- Tags: Arts, Do This, Chicago Jazz Festival, Chicago Fringe Festival, African Festival of the Arts, Great American Lobster Fest, North Coast Music Festival, Oddball Comedy Festival, Taste of Polonia, LAX/ORD, Amazing: A Live Show, Clickhole, Slaughterhouse scooter rally, Frontier Clambake, Deep Schwa

Arts & Culture, Fall Preview Sep 2, 2016
The ten best bets for fall visual arts

Expo Chicago, "Tattoo" at the Field Museum, and more
- By Tal Rosenberg and Sara Cohen
- Tags: Fall Preview, Blow Up: Inflatable Contemporary Art, Elmhurst Art Museum, Ben Rivers, Urth, Renaissance Society, Every Building in Baghdad: The Rifat Chadirji Archives at the Arab Image Foundation, Graham Foundation, Tseng Kwong Chi: Performing for the Camera, Northwestern University Block Museum of Art, Expo Chicago, Navy Pier, Dateline: Bronzeville, Dorchester Art and Housing Collaborative Center, Heavy Sketches, Theaster Gates, Richard Gray Gallery, Moholy-Nagy: Future Present, László Moholy-Nagy, Art Institute of Chicago, Tattoo, Field Museum, Diana Thater: The Sympathetic Imagination, Museum of Contemporary Art

Blogs, Bleader Aug 29, 2016
Canstruction Chicago, Rockin' Lobster Bash, and more things to do in Chicago this week

Chicago Jazz Festival and other happenings from August 29-September1.
- By Sara Cohen
- Tags: Arts, Do This, Laugh Till You're Winded, Michael Alexander, Tyler Ross, Ladylike, Melody Kamali, Stephanie Weber, Becca Brown, Gena Gephart, Deanna Ortiz, Kristen Toomey, Canstruction Chicago, Greater Chicago Food Depository, Moth Story Slam, Rockin' Lobster Bash, Rebecca O'Neal, Congrats on Your Success, Uncharted Books, Chicago Jazz Festival, Brown in Bronzeville Effect, Obert Davis' Soul Migration, Dan Trudell Trio, Charlie Haden

Blogs, Bleader Aug 26, 2016
The Living Newspaper Festival, Villapalooza, and more things to do in Chicago this weekend

Sangria Festival, Puppet Meltdown, and more happenings from August 26-28.
- By Sara Cohen
- Tags: Do This, Arts, Music, Food & Drink, Taste of Greektown, Maria Gaspar, Experimental Sound Studio, Cook County Jail, Aquanaut Brewing Company, Records and Beer, These Old Men They Play Records, Ryan Powers, Villapalooza, Little Village, Los Crudos, Generacion Suicida, Thee Commons, West Town Hoedown & Cookout, Sangria Festival, National Museum of Puerto Rican Arts and Culture, Jackalope Theatre, Living Newspaper Festival, Rachal Duggan, Comfort Station, Puppet Meltdown

Blogs, Bleader Aug 12, 2016
Bit Bash, Comedy Nerd Fest, and more things to do in Chicago this weekend

Bud Billiken Parade, Northalsted Market Days, and more happenings from August 12-14.
- By Sara Cohen
- Tags: Do This, Arts, Private Eyes, Kinsey Institute, Intuit, Alfred Kinsey, Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Joshua Bell, Chris Botti, Eataly, All You Can Pizza, Comedy Nerd Festival, Improvised Star Trek, Improvised Jane Austen, Jackson Bird, Team Starkid, Festival Cubano, Juan Esteban, Orishas, Elvis Crespo, India, Albita Rodriguez, Riis Park, Cuban Festival, Bit Bash, Alternative Games, Bud Billiken Parade, Chicago Defender, Kite Festival, Chicago Botanic Garden, Chicago Fire Kite Team, Kite Society of Illinois and Wisconsin, Northalsted Market Days

Blogs, Bleader Aug 8, 2016
The Bad News Bears, Chicago Musical Theatre Festival, and more things to do in Chicago this week

Taste of Andersonville Dinner Crawl, the Grown in Chicago Summer Soiree and Showcase, and more happenings from August 8-11.
- By Sara Cohen
- Tags: Do This, Arts, Bad News Bears, Nick Digilio, Dan Epstein, Taste of Andersonville Dinner Crawl, DePaul Art Museum, Barbara Rossi, Hairy Who & The Chicago Imagists, Messing With a Friend, TJ Jagodowski, Susan Messing, Grown in Chicago, Advocates for Urban Agriculture, Big Delicious Planet

Blogs, Bleader Aug 5, 2016
Olympic swimmer Naomy Grand’Pierre’s ambitions go beyond her own times

Grand’Pierre wants to grow the sport in Haiti as much as she wants to medal in Rio.
- By Sara Cohen
- Tags: Sports, News, Naomy Grand'Pierre, University of Chicago, Haiti, 2016 Rio Olympics, swimming

Blogs, Bleader Jul 22, 2016
Wicker Park Fest, the Comedy Exposition, and more things to do in Chicago this weekend

Sheffield Music Festival and Garden Walk, the Windy City Pet Expo, and more happenings from July 22-24.
- By Sara Cohen
- Tags: Arts, Do This, Armitage, Sleep On It, Sidewalk Chalk, Lucky Boys Confusion, Taste of River North, Women & Children First, Used Book Sale, Andersonville Sidewalk Sale, Disability Pride Parade, PokemonGo, Cameron Esposito, Rhea Butcher, The Comedy Exposition, Wicker Park Fest, Sheffield Music Festival & Garden Walk, Bright Light Social Hour, The Mowgli's, Windy City Pet Expo, Chicago Hot Sauce Fest, Belmont and Elston, Invisible Man, Gordon Parks, Ralph Ellison, Feminist Uprising to Resist Inequality and Exploitation, FURIE, Blame the System Not the Victim

Blogs, Bleader Jul 19, 2016
The Silver Room Block Party took Hyde Park by storm this weekend

After a year as the new kid on the block in Hyde Park, Silver Room owner Eric Williams has restored his annual Sound System Block Party to its former glory—and then some.
- By Sara Cohen
- Tags: Music, Neighborhoods, Silver Room, Silver Room Block Party, Sound System Block Party, Silver Room Sound System Block Party, Hyde Park, Eric Williams, Open Mike Eagle, the Promontory, Ron Trent, Stony Island Arts Bank, Limba Gal Jewely, Mr. and Mrs. Smith, Aquil Charlton, Danny Krivit, Francois K, Adrian Lovin

Blogs, Bleader Jul 8, 2016
Tour de Fat, Millennium Art Festival, and more things to do in Chicago this weekend

Roscoe Village Burger Fest, Millennium Art Festival, and more happenings from July 8-10.
- By Sara Cohen
- Tags: Arts, Do This, Disco Demolition, Dave Hoekstra, Steve Dahl, Panteon Rococo, Carla Morrison, Instituto Mexicano del Sonido, Ruido Festival, Lost Artists Show, Art Colony, Vito Carli, George John Larson, Rebecca F, Tour de Fat, Irish Festival, Millennium Art Festival

Blogs, Bleader Jul 5, 2016
Video
Chance the Rapper at Taste of Chicago and more things to do this week

Open Mike Eagle, an MCA stroller tour, and more happenings in Chicago from July 5-7
- By Sara Cohen
- Tags: Do This, Do This, Arts, Dance, Food & Drink, Music, Eden Robins, Andrew Huff, Tuesday Funk, Leland Cheuk, Hannah Gamble, Maggie Jenkins, Scott Smith, Kendra Stevens, Hopleaf Bar, Subterranean, High Waisted, Baby Money, Dude Same, Sports Boyfriend, Museum of Contemporary Arts, Taste of Chicago, Roots, Donnie Trumpet, Graham Elliot, Leveldance, Athenaeum Theatre, Open Mike Eagle, Saba, Air Credits, The Hood Internet, ShowYouSuck, Double Door, Video

Blogs, Bleader Jul 5, 2016
Top cop calls Fourth of July gun violence reduction 'progress' but 'not success,' and other Chicago news

And, Sheryl Swoopes's exit as Loyola's women's basketball coach.
- By Sara Cohen
- Tags: Did You Read __________?, News, Eddie Johnson, Chicago Police, Sheryl Swoopes, Loyola University Chicago, Basketball, Bronzeville Arts and Recreation Center, Stop the Pop, Historic Chicago Bungalow Association

Blogs, Bleader Jun 24, 2016
Pride Parade, Bob Dylan, and more things to do in Chicago this weekend

Pride Parade, a sausage fest, a vegan fest, and eight more cool things to do in Chicago this weekend.
- By Sara Cohen
- Tags: Do This, Arts, Food & Drink, Music, Sara Cohen, Weekend, Logan Square Arts Festival, Logan Square, Xenia Rubinos, Screaming Females, Blitzen Trapper, Bob Dylan, Mavis Staples, Ravinia Festival, Vegan Food and Drink Festival, Mic. the Vegan, Radius & Dia.L, Arcadia, Rai, Oshwa the Band, Grant Park, Field Museum, Field Market Days, Greater Chicago Food Depository, Hunger Walk, Jackson Park, Hollywood Beach, Transmale Beach Party, Pride Weekend, Evanston, Fountain Square Art Festival, The Flat Cats, Chris Greene Quartet, The Hat Guys, Trippin Billies, Joe Policastro Trio, Classical Blast, Elston Avenue Sausage and Music Fest, Glam Camp, Murder by Death, Gold Web, HoneyHoney, B96 Summer Bash, Ariana Grande, Meghan Trainor, Calvin Harris, Puth, Mike Posner, Daya, Chicago Pride, Pride Parade, Monica Raymund

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Sara Cohen

The British artist’s first U.S. solo exhibition imagines a postapocalyptic future through the lens of a disturbing present.

Watch Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump's first official debate at these Chicago venues.

Wicker Park & West Town Lit Fest, "More Strange Than True," and more happenings from September 16-18.

The Fifth Star Awards, "Every Building in Baghdad," and more happenings from September 12-15.

Shock Top Oyster Fest, 48 Hour Film Project, and more happenings from September 9-11.

The Great American Lobster Fest, Oddball Comedy Festival, and more happenings from September 2-5.

Expo Chicago, "Tattoo" at the Field Museum, and more

Chicago Jazz Festival and other happenings from August 29-September1.

Sangria Festival, Puppet Meltdown, and more happenings from August 26-28.

Bud Billiken Parade, Northalsted Market Days, and more happenings from August 12-14.

Taste of Andersonville Dinner Crawl, the Grown in Chicago Summer Soiree and Showcase, and more happenings from August 8-11.

Grand’Pierre wants to grow the sport in Haiti as much as she wants to medal in Rio.

Sheffield Music Festival and Garden Walk, the Windy City Pet Expo, and more happenings from July 22-24.

After a year as the new kid on the block in Hyde Park, Silver Room owner Eric Williams has restored his annual Sound System Block Party to its former glory—and then some.

Roscoe Village Burger Fest, Millennium Art Festival, and more happenings from July 8-10.

Open Mike Eagle, an MCA stroller tour, and more happenings in Chicago from July 5-7

And, Sheryl Swoopes's exit as Loyola's women's basketball coach.

Pride Parade, a sausage fest, a vegan fest, and eight more cool things to do in Chicago this weekend.

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