Today the exhibition “Palette and Palate” opens at Madron Gallery (1000 W. North). It’s a retrospective celebrating Chicago’s Riccardo’s Restaurant and Gallery that anticipates a PBS documentary on the topic dropping in December. In the mid-20th century, Riccardo’s Restaurant and Gallery was founded by former WPA artist Ric Riccardo. At first, he immersed diners in […]
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Music makes the people come together
Upcoming events and distractions from our listings coordinator
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Grün Wasser diversify their apocalyptic EBM on the new Not OK With Things
Grün Wasser diversify their apocalyptic EBM on the new Not OK With Things, the Chicago South Side Film Festival celebrates house music with a documentary by Jesse Saunders, and more.
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These photos are cuter than any picture you’ll take on Mother’s Day
Here’s a roundup of the cutest furry, feathered, and finned mothers and their babies in the area.
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These sculptures made of washed-up garbage are the coolest art on the lakefront right now
The “Washed Ashore” display, which shines a spotlight on all the garbage in the ocean, is now outside the Shedd Aquarium.
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March to the Polls and more of the best things to do in Chicago this weekend
The pop-up bar Room 237 and more goings-on January 19-21
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Mayor Rahm Emanuel feeling good about Chicago Public Schools as the 2017-’18 school year begins, and other news
Also, the Obama Foundation wants to change the nation’s stereotypes about the south side.
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Chicago police have solved less than 20 percent of the murders committed in 2017, and other news
Also, 12 museums are offering free admission for CPS students this week.
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Best view of the city
Shedd Aquarium / Museum Campus 1200 S. Lake Shore 312-939-2438 sheddaquarium.org @shedd_aquarium Runner-Up Lake Shore Drive
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Dining With Goose, Death, Sex & Money, and more things to do in Chicago this week
Feminist Happy Hour, Sauced Market, and more happenings from November 14-17.
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M1 Interactive creates digital environments in this real environment on the Near West Side
The M1 Interactive firm gives a tour of the space where its designers create immersive digital environments.
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Tiki drink classes, a sustainable seafood dinner, and more food stuff to do and read
Adam Seger teaches tiki drinks, Good Beer Hunting gets interviewed, a Moody Tongue beer dinner, secret weapons and more.
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The Lucas museum brings a vanity project to the lakefront
Whatever else George Lucas’s proposed museum is, it’s a vanity project, something its predecessors were not.
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Reader’s Agenda Sun 2/9: Celluloid Therapy: The Diary Films of Anne Charlotte Robertson, Twin Peaks, and Snow Days
What’s on the Reader‘s Agenda for Sunday, February 9
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Best Wordplay
Never forced (think NY Post or, ahem, Chicago Sun-Times), they achieve a breezy, casual success: attendees at the Chicago Comic and Entertainment Expo were “looking for love in Alderaan places,” for instance.