Here’s one way to think about the Ravinia Music Box, the new, high-tech attraction that debuted this month in its own building on the festival grounds: it takes the legendary music venue back to its earliest days. In 1904, when Ravinia first opened, it was an amusement park, intended to drum up passengers for a […]
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Posted inColumns & Opinion
Lyric and CSO face the music
A year after the shutdown, they’re bringing it back.
Posted inArts & Culture
Ravinia finds a new conductor and curator
Marin Alsop takes on a newly created role at the music festival.
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Happy 101st birthday, Leonard Bernstein
Ravinia debuts its new “experience center” with an exhibit devoted to Leonard Bernstein.
Posted inMusic
Ravinia announces its 2019 season
This summer’s Highland Park highlights include Queen Latifah, “Weird Al” Yankovic, Michael McDonald and Chaka Khan, Kesha, T.I., Buddy Guy, Jennifer Hudson, and Lyle Lovett.
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Getting dizzy at Ravinia when the CSO plays Bernard Herrmann’s Vertigo score
The composer gave Hitchcock’s films much of their menace.
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Conductor James Levine accused of sexual misconduct during his time as Ravinia’s music director, and other Chicago news
Also, Jim DeRogatis asks why the music industry has given R. Kelly a free pass despite numerous sexual misconduct allegations.
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Windy City Rubber Ducky Derby, Megan Stielstra’s book launch party, and more of the best things to do this week
Leftist comedy in Monkey Wrench, Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf: The Good Parts, and more happenings 7/31-8/3
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Poll: Illinois voters disapprove of both Madigan and Rauner, and other Chicago news
Also, three CPS students wrote an open letter thanking Chance the Rapper.
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Chicago Margarita Festival, CLLAW XXV: Summer Showdown, and more things to do in Chicago this weekend
Fed Up Fest, Chicago Poetry Block Party, and more happenings from July 29-31.
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Adele, the Chicago Pin and Patch Pop-up, and more to do this week in Chicago
Detention Hall, Activate: Smell, and more happenings from July 11-14.
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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.
Posted inBest of Chicago
Chicago’s North Shore fuels architecture fantasies
The curving streets of the affluent north suburbs are lined with midcentury-modern marvels and the locations of John Hughes movies.
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Segregation decreases but poverty increases in Chicago’s black neighborhoods and other news
Also, the Chicago Tribune endorses Mike Madigan’s primary challenger, and the Chicago Shakespeare Theater announces its Navy Pier expansion.
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Reader’s Agenda Tue 8/26: Third Coast Percussion, A Summer’s Tale, and the Beach Boys
What’s on the Reader’s Agenda for Tuesday, August 26