After reading John Kessler’s explosive Chicago Magazine article about the waning “mojo” of the city’s dining scene, you can’t help but reassess your own views of what it’s like to eat in this rambunctious town. Drawn from his expansive view of local trends across the country, Kessler’s in a unique position to see and taste …
Driven by need or opportunity, people have been packing up and leaving long established digs to find brighter futures elsewhere for millennia. Most of these odysseys have gone completely unheralded; occurring quietly and in virtual obscurity. Thanks to an imaginative and multi-focused exhibition currently on show at the Museum of Contemporary Art, we see the …
Created from a Russian fairy tale and set to music by Tchaikovsky in the early 1890’s, the indispensable Christmas classic, The Nutcracker, wasn’t performed in the United States until 1944. Today, many consider it as much a part of the holiday season as a Christmas tree. Despite its unflagging popularity, the innocence and purity …
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