Greg Kot
Chicago hip-hop war of words turns violent - September 6, 2012 - Chicago’s hip-hop community is in a war of words that has escalated into violence, with the shooting death of a teenage rapper.
Michael Phillips
Toronto film fest opens with shows of force - September 6, 2012 - Immersing yourself in a major film festival means more than getting your feet wet. In the screening time it takes to experience two films, perhaps the very first two you see across several days, your perceptions are scrambled in the best possible fashion.
Luis Gomez
Sighting: Vinny Guadagnino hits Vertigo and other reality TV sightings in Chicago - September 6, 2012 - Normally when a cast member from MTV’s “Jersey Shore” is spotted at a bar or club in the Chicago area, it’s because they’re making a paid appearance. But apparently that wasn’t the case when Vinny Guadagnino, one third of "MVP," hit Vertigo in the Dana Hotel...
Chris Jones
'La Soiree' returning to Riverfront Theatre - September 6, 2012 - The adult circus "La Soiree," which did reasonably well this past summer at the Riverfront Theatre, is returning for an encore engagement during the upcoming holiday season.
Rick Kogan's Sidewalks
Singer left her heart in classroom - August 24, 2012 - It is possible, had things worked out a bit differently, that Katie Quick might be back in a Chicago Public Schools classroom doing what she loves to do, which is teach.
Howard Reich
Fall music preview: Chicago jazz greats coming home - September 6, 2012 - Chicago always has produced jazz giants, larger-than-life figures whose art towers over that of mere mortals.
Phil Vettel
Phil Vettel: A final meal at Charlie Trotter's - August 28, 2012 - It was a strange feeling, emerging from a car at 816 W. Armitage Ave., knowing I would never do so again.
Christopher Borrelli
The 'Check, Please!' effect - September 6, 2012 - Popular WTTW-Ch. 11 restaurant show "Check, Please!" is among the most successful locally produced series in Chicago television and an oasis of public television reasonableness in an otherwise frenetic restaurant scene. The series begins its 12th season next month. In the meantime, it will be...
Mark Caro
Chicago Ideas Week doubles in scope - September 5, 2012 - If you want to tour Millennium Park with ex-Mayor Richard M. Daley or to visit Intelligentsia's coffee-roasting plant or to get first dibs on programs featuring retired news anchor Tom Brokaw, actor Edward Norton, model Elle Macpherson, chef Jose Andres and current Mayor Rahm Emanuel, you'll...
Nina Metz
Short, sometimes sweet, often interesting - September 6, 2012 - In the dark animated short "The Watchmaker's Apprentice" (from Chicago filmmaker Julian Grant), the title character narrates his tale in song to an oompah beat. "I once was an apprentice in the clock making trade/and the miser made me work for every penny of my wage/'Till he found he could replace...
Steve Johnson
Snakes on a plain: Lincoln Park Zoo re-populates species - September 5, 2012 - The people, mostly from the partnering Lincoln Park Zoo and Lake County Forest Preserve District, were scientists, public-relations specialists, photojournalists, even an intern, all of them, at times, watching the reptiles like hawks, though with the opposite intent of actual hawks.
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