Fine Arts Building Archives

The Fine Arts theater team makes no little plans

by Kerry Reid August 13, 2021August 18, 2021

Back in the Pleistocene era (that is, 1986), I spent a few months living downtown in the now-gone Herman Crown Center, a Roosevelt University residence hall that also sheltered students from Columbia College Chicago (where I was enrolled) and the School of the Art Institute. (The building was torn down to make room for Roosevelt’s […]

Music

DJ and producer Jordan Zawideh drops an homage to oddball old-school house

by J.R. Nelson and Leor Galil June 3, 2020August 18, 2021

DJ and producer Jordan Zawideh drops an homage to oddball old-school house, sheet-music institution Performers needs help to survive the pandemic, and more.

Music

Pianist Charles Joseph Smith celebrates companionship and solitude in a new video

by Salem Collo-Julin April 2, 2020August 18, 2021

Dr. Charles Joseph Smith collaborated on his new video with filmmakers from Mississippi Records and Raw Music International.

Blogs

Bruce Rauner: Congressional GOP tax plan ‘punishing’ for Illinois, and other Chicago news

by Kate Shepherd January 5, 2018August 18, 2021

Also, more than 600 complaints have come in about landlords breaking the city’s heat ordinance.

Blogs

Dial Bookshop opens for business in the Fine Arts Building

by Aimee Levitt December 4, 2017August 18, 2021

The owners of Pilsen Community Books now have a second store downtown.

Blogs

Mark Kirk drops Trump endorsement ‘after much consideration,’ and other Chicago news

by Kate Shepherd June 8, 2016August 18, 2021

Also, the police department hires an official to help implement reforms.

Music

Daniel Knox gives our derelicts the beautiful music they deserve

by Tal Rosenberg February 17, 2015August 18, 2021

He learned to play piano in hotel lobbies and likes to wander the city alone at night. Now he’s made one of the best singer-songwriter albums of the year.