Strolling down memory lane during Restaurant Week (RW) can reap big rewards. It’s been decades since last dining at Topolobampo. Finally that experience and curiosity about how Rick Bayless rocks the yearly food fest became two incentives that drew us into this year’s campaign to fill the towns dining chairs. 2019’s winter vortex threatened to …
When boarding takes place in cities whose renown rests in a storied history, adventure or exoticism, many cruise lines will offer excursions that brings travelers closer to the distinguishing aspects of the locale. They also provide opportunities to explore cities freestyle by selecting hotel accommodations well situated for walking and discovering. Even more strategically, business …
The age of elegant cruising when women hopped on board beautiful ocean liners with ten steamer trunks stuffed with gowns and men never went to dinner without a tux are long gone. But fashion evolution is about the only thing that’s changed about cruising. Its popularity remains immense now that the cost to meander on …
Sometimes when music so completely reflects the world we live in through sound, it can leave us a little baffled. And because Yoko – Zuna embodies so many musical forms beyond the progressive contemporary, the forward-thinking band can initially seem incomprehensible. Out of Auckland, New Zealand, the foursome is like a chameleon with an electronic …
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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Eclipse Theater ends its season of William Inge with perhaps the playwright’s barest and most personal work; a rework of his first professional play with autobiographical overtones. The Dark at the Top of the Stairs opens in tension and exists in struggle. It’s also a journey into the unknown that’s familiar to everyone; making it …
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Convergence in the world of dance can be rare. This past weekend’s summit at the Auditorium Theater brought together three quite different dance companies and shed new light on what contemporary dance looks like in an age glistening with technology. Deeply Rooted Dance Theater, the oldest and most traditionally grounded company of the three; …
For those who have an inkling of the progressive and liberated world of improvisational dance, last weekend’s Relations performance on the Museum of Contemporary Art’s Neeson stage must have seemed momentous. Three marvels of the technique would be sharing a dance floor for the first time. For those who have an appreciation of dance …
In a city of millions, holiday traditions can come in lots of flavors and formats. And for the past quarter century, the story of how Halloween Town’s Pumpkin King tried to steal Christmas from Santa has become a cherished staple all over the world, including our dense and complex city of wonder here in Chicago. …