In a stunningly abrupt ruling just before noon Tuesday, U.S. District Court Judge John Robert Blakey dismissed the Protect Our Parks (POP) lawsuit that sought to keep the Obama Presidential Center from locating in Jackson Park. Lawyers for the city had argued that those protections did not apply.
Maria’s Packaged Goods The Beer Temple Finalists: Bottles and Cans, Beermiscuous
Lincoln Park North Center Finalists: Lakeview, Roscoe Village
Street View is a fashion series in which Isa Giallorenzo spotlights some of the coolest styles seen in Chicago.
ARTIST: Daniel MacAdam SHOW: Black Mountain and White Hills at Lincoln Hall on Thu 5/12 MORE INFO: crosshairchicago.com
Welcome to the Reader‘s morning briefing for Friday, November 3, 2017. Alderman Willie Cochran “responsive” after collapsing during hearing Alderman Willie Cochran is “responsive” after collapsing during a Chicago Police Department budget hearing at City Hall Thursday. Several alderman performed CPR on Cochran, who was taken out on a stretcher by paramedics. “He was kind of contorted, so we just checked for a pulse, opened an airway and gave him some compressions because we weren’t feeling a real good pulse,” alderman Pat O’Connor said....
Time was when the future looked rather grim indeed for the latest Neos show, 45 Plays for America’s First Ladies, which opens October 8 in a streaming production. It’s the launch of the Neo-Futurists’ 32nd season. But back in 2016, the show was shelved indefinitely in the wake of a presidential election that nobody saw coming. Directed by Denise Yvette Serna, 45 Plays is as it sounds: a series of playlets about the First Ladies of these United States, Martha to Melania....
Nilo Cruz’s plays often center on people suffering displacement and trying to find distractions for that pain, as in his 2003 Pulitzer Prize-winning Anna in the Tropics, about a group of Cuban immigrants working in the cigar industry in 1929 Florida who take comfort from hearing Anna Karenina read aloud—and like Anna, engage in their own passionate infidelities. In 2018’s Exquisita Agonía, the characters are caught between life and death, past and present....
Street View is a fashion series in which Isa Giallorenzo spotlights some of the coolest styles seen in Chicago. Being pregnant ain’t easy, and looking cute while expecting is even harder. Some moms-to-be wear their belly loud and proud in stretch fabrics, but for those who prefer roomier shapes, like travel blogger Maleeha Sambur, a good old tunic can be the answer. Hers is a quilted denim number by the aptly named Creatures of Comfort....
Mauricio A. Consalter, MD The Healing Clinic Finalists: Innovative Express Care, Educated Alternative
Music Box Runner-Up: Gene Siskel Film Center
Beauty and the Beast broadwayinchicago.com Runner-Up: Connected
Paul John Higgins In the first round of Best of Chicago voting, 114,757 were cast. That’s like three times more votes than Bob Fioretti got when he ran for mayor. Best bookstore: The Book CellarMyopic BooksQuimby’sWomen & Children First Best local distillery:CH DistilleryChicago DistilleryFew LetherbeeKoval Best up-and-coming band:AthenaCeline NeonMeat WaveRyan Powers and the Secret WeaponsTwin Peaks Best stand-up comic:Adam BurkeJamie CampbellTamale Sepp
There are plenty of country weeklies in America where the editor is also the publisher—and also sells the ads and takes the pictures and answers the phone and probably sits on the school board. Before Ferro moved on he tested some of his ideas at the Sun-Times. Jim Kirk is both the editor and the publisher, and I asked him what he thought. He e-mailed me this response: To your question about whether the wall goes away?...
Update: To help slow the spread of COVID-19, this show has been postponed until further notice. Ticket holders should contact point of purchase for refund or exchange information. Canadian artist Dan Snaith, who performs as Caribou, crafts mesmerizing explorations of dance music that are alluring, catchy, and intimate. He distills various strains of house music into simple moods and fleshes out the emotions of each track with gently spoken vocals. This is especially true on his latest album, Suddenly (Merge)....
Melis Sönmez is the founder and director of Bright Side, an online magazine dedicated to telling the stories of creative immigrants living in the United States. With her small team, composed of herself, a writing volunteer, a social media volunteer, and a design partner, she hopes to empower immigrants and educate American citizens about the obstacles that they must overcome to live in this country. She’s starting at the grassroots level with her newest project, titled “From Immigrants,” a series of cards featuring vibrant artwork and brief anecdotes from immigrants that Sönmez will leave in various public spaces across Chicago....
On February 20, Michael Dedmon opened Evanston’s newest music store, Black Squirrel Records. Dedmon is a dedicated record fiend who began buying up entire collections a decade ago, and so far all of Black Squirrel’s stock has come directly from his personal holdings. The store’s inventory includes rock, reggae, electronic music, jazz, soul, country, blues, and world music. Dedmon says a neighbor of his owns the 450-square-foot storefront at 1620 Greenleaf Street, and he’s wanted to open a record store there for a few years....
The pizza’s almost gone here in the Reader newsroom, and you know what that means—election results are starting to come in. Finally! Just kidding! The drama of the campaign—who’s tied to Alderman Ed Burke, who’s in support of the new police academy, who’s caught on Solis’s wiretap, and whether anyone can outmoney Daley—this all matters a great deal, and we know it.
Fox gave Disney a run for its money when it released the 1997 animated feature film Anastasia, about an amnesiac orphan who might be the lost daughter of the last czar of Russia. With a winning formula of cute animal sidekicks, catchy musical numbers, and a quest for identity, Anastasia tapped into every girl’s presumed desire to be a princess and find romance. The 2017 musical, with book by Terrence McNally, music by Stephen Flaherty, and lyrics by Lynn Ahrens, nixes the sidekicks and turns up the Russian revolutionary history a notch for a visually stunning family-friendly show with few surprises....
