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    Article What You're Doing Tonight: January 6

    Jan 6, 2009

    Two (very different) plays debut, "To Kill a Mockingbird" gets screened and local writer Zach Dodson reads from a work in progress.

  • Article Let it Snow!

    11 minutes ago

    It's snowing. Again. January is one of the hardest months to get through in Chicago -- unless you're an optimist. So, instead of thinking, "ugh, I have to shovel again" -- think, "huh,...

  • Article Local Kid is 'The Unborn'

    44 minutes ago

    Filmed in Chicago, 'The Unborn' is the story of a woman slowly being possessed by a spirit -- 9-year-old Ethan Cutkosky.

  • Article Reinventing the Wheel

    2 hours ago

    Got a car in your garage that's always a work in progress? Salivate over custom hot rods you see on the street? Bring your heavy metal dreams to the 47th annual CARQUEST World of Wheels show,...

  • Article A Conversation With Homaro Cantu

    4 hours ago

    Join chef Homaro Cantu and his business partner Dr. Linda Kawano as they discuss their culinary wizardry at the Chicago Cultural Center.

  • Article Have a Ball, Young America!

    4 hours ago

    Hipsters, get your tuxedos and ball gowns. The President-elect is having a party for you.

  • Article You, Too, Can Influence Change

    5 hours ago | 4 comments

    Political action group MoveOn announced that it would hold "Congressional Action Trainings" around the country this weekend, including here in Chicago.

  • Link Theaster Gates External website

    Jan 6, 2009

    Jan 6 – Feb 1Tuesdays (10am–8pm)Wednesdays–Sundays (10am–5pm) @ Museum of Contemporary ArtArtists from Matisse to Rothko have topped off their careers by designing chapels that serve as places of spiritual...

  • Link Works in Progress: Ken Fandell External website

    Jan 6, 2009

    Artist Ken Fandell's enigmatic photographs and videos tend to either highlight the mundane (as in It's Hard and I Could Use Some Help, in which an oversized pair of hands attempts to glue together tiny...

  • Article Russian Wonk Predicts U.S. Civil War in 2010

    Jan 6, 2009 | 11 comments

    Academic gets Kremlin love, becomes Russian media sensation thanks to his end-of-America scenario (Spoiler alert: NYC to join European Union!)

  • Article It's Here: The First Stupid Lawsuit of '09!

    Jan 6, 2009 | 27 comments

    The new Great Depression may put an end to spending, jobs, ponies, and the happiness of all mankind, but what just keeps chugging like the Energizer Bunny? Stupid, hair-trigger litigiousness!

  • Article A Ski Trip Within Stumbling Distance

    Jan 5, 2009

    Looking to hit the slopes without getting on a plane? This trip is for you.

  • Article Want to Make a Scene?

    Jan 6, 2009

    It's not often that you get the opportunity to be a member of the first audience for an on-set, work-in-progress play.

  • Article Deal of the Day: $19.27 Hawaiian Getaway

    Jan 5, 2009 | 2 comments

    One of Waikiki's legendary, luxe resorts is reopening - and offering rates not seen since 1927...

  • Article Do Sweets Grow on Trees?

    Jan 6, 2009

    If you thought the days of candy canes, chocolate cookies and other holiday goodies were gone along with 2008, think again. The Garfield Park Conservatory, 300 N. Central Park Ave. is doing its part to...

  • Article What You're Doing Today (and Tonight): Jan. 5

    Jan 5, 2009

    A lunchtime concert at the Cultural Center, a "Dirty Dancing" benefit for the Joffrey Ballet, and a deluxe wine tasting at one sixtyblue.

  • Article Don't Poke Me, Bro

    Jan 5, 2009 | 9 comments

    Facebook's enormous popularity has created the need for some simple rules of etiquette for its millions of users. Here are some suggestions.

  • Link Elsewhere In The Ist-a-verse External website

    Jan 5, 2009

    Photograph of Times Square during the first moments of 2009 by Neil Epstein/Gothamist Gothamist said good-bye to 2008 by looking back at the year and rang in 2009 in Times Square. (God bless YouTube...

  • Article Everything's Coming Up Closes

    Jan 5, 2009

    There are going to be fewer lights and more broken hearts on Broadway as final curtains fall on more than a dozen shows this month.

  • Article George + Paris = Bad Recessionomics

    Jan 5, 2009 | 10 comments

    Why George Clooney's rumored canoodling with Paris Hilton is terrible news for the economy...

  • Link Classical Mondays: Chicago Chamber Musicians External website

    Jan 5, 2009

    Clarinetist Larry Combs headlines this afternoon's Chamber Music edition of the LunchBreak Classical Mondays series. Principal clarinetist with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra for 30 years, Combs has earned...

  • Link Bluegrass Banjo I External website

    Jan 5, 2009

    Mondays (8pm) @ Old Town School of Folk MusicIf artists like Akron/Family, Sufjan Stevens, and Iron and Wine inspired you to pick up that banjo gathering dust in your closet, fret not. The Old Town School...

  • Article Inauguration Party to Feature Bush Pinata

    Jan 5, 2009

    Chicago Bush haters have the ultimate symbolic way of celebrating the outgoing president's last day in office.

  • Article What's in Your Top Five?

    Jan 5, 2009

    What is it about lists of favorites that we all seem to love?

  • Article Bring on the B-Films

    Jan 5, 2009

    If your New Year's resolution involves taking more steps to immerse yourself in the arts -- film in particular -- why not kick off 2009 with a bang at Northwestern University's 24-hour marathon of B-movies?...

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