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Homegrown guitar legend Harvey Mandel issues a mind-bending new album

by Steve Krakow December 21, 2022December 19, 2022

Harvey “the Snake” Mandel is a guitarist’s guitarist. Born in Detroit in 1945 and raised in Morton Grove, he moved to the west coast in his early 20s to launch his career. He never became a household name like Stevie Ray Vaughan or Eric Crapton, but beginning with his debut LP, 1968’s funky fuzz classic […]

two performers and a band with a screen behind them

Arts & Culture

The theme is love at Pop-Up Magazine

by Sheri Flanders October 27, 2022October 27, 2022

On October 28, Pop-Up Magazine will be staged at the Athenaeum Center for Thought and Culture.

Humphrey Bogart and Ingrid Bergman look at each other in the movie Casablanca.

City Life

Light up your life with these lovely events

by Salem Collo-Julin, Micco Caporale and Kerry Reid February 11, 2022February 11, 2022

Are you loving life? Or living to love? While we don’t have recommendations for romantic fireside dinners (expect perhaps, don’t wear flammable fabrics and keep your phone charged in case you need to split early), we do have a list of interesting events that you can attend with friends, family, neighbors—or just by your beautiful […]

Bryce Rogers and Charlie Kolodziej met at 19-hour sit-in at the University of Chicago Police Department in June and have been together ever since.

City Life

Coupled up in quarantine

by Emma Oxnevad February 12, 2021August 18, 2021

Despite the ongoing pandemic, partners are finding—and maintaining—love.

"What do you want to do for dinner?"
"I don't know, what do you want to do for dinner?"

City Life

Take your lovin’ to Zoom

by Salem Collo-Julin February 5, 2021August 18, 2021

Upcoming events and recommendations from our listings coordinator

City Life

Is your lovin’ worth two transfers?

by Salem Collo-Julin August 7, 2020August 18, 2021

What our listings coordinator is musing about this week

Arts & Culture

Finding love on Instagram Live

by S. Nicole Lane June 25, 2020August 18, 2021

Media broadcasting network COVIDtv takes on dating.

Music

Flipper hit the road with David Yow: the original unhinged noise-rock band, fronted by the king of unhinged noise rock

by Luca Cimarusti June 20, 2019August 18, 2021

7/2/2019: This article has been changed to correctly reflect the events that leaf Flipper to break up. We live in a time where the unhinged, nothing-to-lose noise-rock front man is a punk-rock celebrity. But without Will Shatter and Bruce Loose of Flipper, the world never would’ve experienced the antics of Pissed Jeans’ Matt Korvette, These […]