In music, like any other creative medium, imagination can obliterate pre-conceived notions of the possible. Through its series of live streamed concerts that were created as a response to Covid, Eighth Blackbird’s Creative Artist Workshop (CAW) has been reminding us of the many forms excellent music can take. Since CAW began its entertainment offerings, showcasing …
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Commenting on a segment about modern air travel, a television news host recently stated that although she was not afraid of death, she did not want to die “terrified”. Titanic, (Scenes from the British Wreck Commissioner’s Inquiry, 1912), now streaming from Chicago’s Court Theater, can be said to be a story about how 1490 people …
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June 2021 has the world, at least the western world, sitting on a cusp as we move from isolation to reopening. Restaurants may be filling up but theatrical houses won’t start seeing people occupying their seats until the Fall. The transition is proving to be both surprisingly quick and agonizingly slow; which means a lot …
Simplicity may not always be considered a selling point when it comes to restaurants. Which is why it’s good to remember that elegance and simplicity have long been very close cousins. Both can be found co-mingling nicely at Bistro Campagne, a small French restaurant that’s been keeping Lincoln Square happy and well fed since 2002. …