On your agenda: Dawoud Bey finds Chicago’s most promising young artists… The Cumberland River Band blaze through town… free John Luther Adams… plus, the weekend plans of the percussionist Matthew Duvall Read more
August 2012
By Whet Moser
Should cyclists pay for bike lanes and other infrastructure through stickers and licenses, like drivers do? It's been tried, and it doesn't work very well—but there are intriguing alternatives that could generate modest revenue and give them important, if symbolic, skin in the game. Read more
By Penny Pollack, Graham Meyer, and Carly Boers
Singh a New Song
The sommelier and Check, Please! host Alpana Singh says things are coming into greater focus at the Boarding House (720 N. Wells St., no phone yet), her wine-driven restaurant in a townhouse, where each level will offer customers a different experience, such as more formal dining on the second floor and a late-night lounge in the wine cellar... Read more
The sommelier and Check, Please! host Alpana Singh says things are coming into greater focus at the Boarding House (720 N. Wells St., no phone yet), her wine-driven restaurant in a townhouse, where each level will offer customers a different experience, such as more formal dining on the second floor and a late-night lounge in the wine cellar... Read more
By Whet Moser
The brilliant Cincinnati group—a little bit Flying Burrito Brothers, a little bit Velvet Underground, a lot Ohio–plays a must-see Chicago show this weekend. Read more
By Dennis Rodkin
In the past month, signs of vitality in the Chicago real-estate market have proliferated... Read more
By AMANDA KOELLNER
Linly Designs, which has one location in Clarendon Hills, just opened a new, 3,000-square-foot showroom at 1766 Second St. in Highland Park ... Read more
By Whet Moser
Bertrand Goldberg's brutalist hospital was a technical masterpiece of its time, from its innovative structure to the technology used in designing it. Can preservationists link its inner beauty to its future? Read more
Readers ask questions, and our real estate expert answers. This week, a reader named Jenny from the Lake View asks if she should cave in to the advice of real estate agents and lock in a low interest rate now, or continue to take her time searching for the home she wants. Read more
By Carol Felsenthal
The popular political website’s senior White House reporter has compiled lots of juicy tidbits in Obama’s Last Stand—many from unnamed sources—about the president’s insiders. Among the Chicago players mentioned are Rahm Emanuel, Bill Daley, Valerie Jarrett, and David Axelrod... Read more
By Lynn Okura Bey
Last Call
It’s going to be hard to walk out the front door this weekend without running into a festival, whether it’s West Town’s Food Truck Social, the South Loop’s Bash on Wabash, the West Loop’s Fashion in the Streets and Randolph Street Market, or the Bucktown Arts Festival. And that’s just to name a few... Read more
It’s going to be hard to walk out the front door this weekend without running into a festival, whether it’s West Town’s Food Truck Social, the South Loop’s Bash on Wabash, the West Loop’s Fashion in the Streets and Randolph Street Market, or the Bucktown Arts Festival. And that’s just to name a few... Read more