What the Dickens?
Scrooged!
Stores have had their halls decked since Halloween, but for those of us not running a retail establishment, the holiday season is just getting started. This year, leave consumer culture to the mallrats (who has money for excessive shopping anyway?) and go rogue with a couple of irreverent holiday...
Black Wednesday Bashes
Black Wednesday—a.k.a. Thanksgiving Eve, when all good nightlifers go on the prowl for one last hurrah before buckling down to a long weekend with the family—is upon us. But with the economy in a tailspin, will the so-called biggest party night of the year be more doom and gloom than gin and tonic? Not for those with plastic at the ready and a taste for cocktails. We rounded up the top crop of parties slated for November 26th.
Read more »Weekend Photos: Tumans
Picture this: It's Friday night and your buddies have bailed. What to do when the weekend is upon you and you've got no plans? Our nightlife guru Sarah Preston recommends Tumans (2159 W. Chicago Ave.) in Ukrainian Village. Despite a facelift a few years back, this one-time grimiest of dives still offers dirt-cheap beer and a true Chicago icon, DJ Jesse De La Peña, on the turntables a couple of times each month. We visited the cozy corner tavern last Friday; check out photos...
Once and Future Dives
The Best of Today . . .
From a hole in Vegas to a microscopic bar in our very own backyard, Playboy.com has compiled a list of the top ten American dives. As Steve Dollar writes in the article, "Nothing satisfies man’s tortured soul and restless craving for misadventure quite like the dive bar." We couldn't agree more.
One Size Fitz All
Great Scott!
F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby is a classic tale of wealth, privilege, consequence, and the schism between the haves and have-nots. It’s also, as you probably remember from high school, a full-length book—which means Gatz, a marathon theatrical staging of the unabridged novel by the New York troupe Elevator Repair Service, runs a good six-plus...
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The FiveIf "free jazz" sounds more like an activist's cry than a music genre, check out the third annual Umbrella Music Festival. Here are our five picks. |
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The Annotated: BarbatuquesPerformers in this true body band use themselves as instruments. |
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A Bar Grows in West TownReformed scenesters put down roots with Old Oak Tap |
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How About "Triple Threat"?We huddle with Dan Schwab of Avenue M for the 411 on his upcoming new sports bar. |
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You Should Know ... Tom IrwinHe's as nice a guy as they come—in real life and on TV. But Tom Irwin is finally getting to exercise his dark side with a sinister Steppenwolf role and a cameo on Lost |
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Bah, Humbug!Three Scrooges walk into a bar. (And it hurts like the Dickens. Ha!) |
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Dublin Carol
11.18.2008
CSI's William Petersen returns to Chicago theatre for this antidote to typical holiday fare. A dubiously functioning alcoholic employed as an...
Porgy and Bess
11.18.2008
It’s been 56 years since this Gershwin masterpiece last graced the Civic Opera House stage. Don’t wait for the Haley’s Comet of...
Ice Skating in Millennium Park
11.19.2008
The calendar says winter doesn't begin until December 21, but locals know it really starts with the opening of the ice rink in Millennium Park....
Lar Lubovitch Dance Company
11.21.2008
Native Chicagoan and internationally renowned choreographer Lar Lubovitch brings his troupe back to town on its 40th anniversary tour. Shows at 1...
A Very Neo-Futurist Christmas Carol
11.22.2008
Nothing is sacred in this deconstructed take on the Dickens classic: Even Scrooge gets the boot. In place of the old codger’s visits from the...
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Lake Geneva Wine FestivalSeptember 4-7, 2008. The Lake Geneva Wine Festival, with sponsors Chicago magazine, Moët Hennessy, and Grand Geneva Resort & Spa, presented unparalleled event offerings in the Wisconsin lake... |
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