A pizza town always has room for one more player; especially one with bona fides directly from Rome. Bonci arrives with tons of cred, a boatload of creativity and a delectable crust. You won’t be alone if you walk in and fall into instalove as soon as you look down at that long row of …
There is no better introduction to Pilsen than that institution of deliciousness on the corner of 18th and Wood. But Pilsen is Pilsen. Full of surprises. New kids can even come into the hood and shake things up a little. Some know Pilsen intimately well. A Vietnamese restaurant taking up residence down the street might …
You’d think the monsters of junior high school couldn’t be as horrible as the ones in senior high, but of course they are. In the wistfully charming production of Trevor the Musical now playing at the Writers Theater in Glencoe, they steadfastly do what monsters do and try to destroy a kid because he’s “weird”. …
The question underlying Monticello, a play about Thomas Jefferson and his views on the Declaration of Independence fifty years after its signing, is a fascinating one. What did Jefferson actually think about the value and legacy of this keystone document now that it was embedded in the national fabric? Playwright Thomas Geoghegan’s ambitious work now …
About to fold camp in one of city’s many unheralded treasures, the Civil Rights Photography of Maria Varela has a mere four weeks left at the National Mexican Arts Museum in Pilsen; ending its five-month run. Varela, a native Chicagoan baptized in activism in high school, captured images that freeze history and drip with intimacy. …
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Very few people would likely think of the word “power” when considering the work of Takasi Murakami. This is the man whose renown is wrapped up in anime and comic books (manga). And for creating the marvelous artwork on the cover of Kanye West’s Graduation album showing a teddy bear being blasted out of …
Fear of beef, pork and salt kept me out of Fat Rice for years. Finally, curiosity got the best of dietary concerns and we were off to one of the city’s least pretentious neighborhoods. Just west of the Kennedy on Diversey, it’s the kind of area you feel at home in. People around here work …
Despite it being around a couple of years now, Harris Theater’s Mix at Six doesn’t seem to have been fully discovered yet. If it had, its 1500 seats would have been brimming over like beer suds on a frosted glass Thursday night. In its coupling of Happy Hour to the performing arts, they’ve hit …