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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,...

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

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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,...

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

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

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

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...

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...

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!)

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!

Jan 5, 2009

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

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.

Jan 5, 2009 | 2 comments

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

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...

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.

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.

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...

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.

Jan 5, 2009 | 10 comments

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

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...

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...

Jan 5, 2009

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

Jan 5, 2009

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

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?...