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by NEIL TESSER | Jan 6, 2012
In recent years, Nicole Mitchell, an enterprising jazz flutist, modernist composer and leader of several inventive ensembles, has been a celebrated success story in Chicago music. Last spring, she received an Alpert Award, worth $75,000, from the California Institute of...
by NEIL TESSER | Dec 16, 2011
Standing tall and cool in front of a small combo, the Chicago vocalist Rose Colella plumbs the Great American Songbook for her repertory, from Irving Berlin and the Gershwins through Cole Porter and Frank Loesser. In this respect, she fits...
by MERIBAH KNIGHT | Dec 2, 2011
Before they were in, they were out. Before crowds swamped the galleries and celebrities wrote checks, KC Ortiz and Jordan Nickel wielded spray cans, hopped fences, provoked the citizenry, got arrested — all to make Chicago’s streets, rooftops and el...
by JUAN-PABLO VELEZ | Nov 14, 2011
On a recent Saturday afternoon in Humboldt Park, a small band of volunteers scrambled to put the finishing touches on their library’s new home — the sixth in as many years for the Read/Write Library, Chicago’s largest depository of grass-roots...
by DAVID MURRAY | Oct 31, 2011
For 40 years, Bill Lavicka fought noisily to save old Chicago churches, houses and other neighborhood architecture from the wrecking ball. He worked quietly to restore buildings all over the city, rehabilitating dozens in his whimsical style. One day in...
by MERIBAH KNIGHT | Oct 10, 2011
An encounter with Herbert Migdoll, the staff photographer for the Joffrey Ballet, often comes with a story. Maybe the one about the time Robert Joffrey asked him over a pitcher of sangria in Greenwich Village to pray for former President...
by IDALMY CARRERA | Oct 6, 2011
For years, the Chicago Humanities Festival could lay claim to the big brains of Chicago, but the rollout of a new speakers’ series–Chicago Ideas Week–is creating a polite but indisputable battle for the minds of Chicago. The skirmish that’s shaping...
by NEIL TESSER | Sep 26, 2011
SCENE: The original Playboy Club, on Walton near Michigan Avenue, circa 1961, painstakingly resurrected at the sprawling Cinespace soundstage in Douglas Park 50 years later. This sybarite’s delight, with its cottontailed waitresses and simmering sexuality, is the setting for “The...
by MERIBAH KNIGHT | Sep 16, 2011
Regina Meirmanov is 8. She likes pizza, hula hoops, the TV show “iCarly” and the singer Katy Perry. When she grows up, she wants to be a contortionist, or maybe a trapeze artist. Max Jenkins is 6. He likes soccer,...
by CLAIRE BUSHEY | Aug 26, 2011
Rebecca Tirado arrived six days early to enroll her 7-year-old twins at the People’s Music School. With a tent, an air mattress and a cooler stocked with Gatorade and yogurt, she and her husband were ready for an extended sidewalk stakeout....
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