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Play Ingeniously Revisits Edgar Allan Poe and His Unsettling Fixation
The sensory impact of David Rice’s The Madness of Edgar Allan Poe: A Love Story, now extended to November 21st in Oak Park, may be …
Glass Half-Full Second Night of Logan Center BluesFest
Last Saturday night’s installment of the Third Logan Center Blues Fest came dabbed with surprises. Headlined by a legend, and opening with a rising star; …
Windy City Playhouse’s Marriage of Farce and Food a Recipe for Success
Windy City Playhouse, king of the immersive theater concept in Chicago, is back with a brand-new spin on how to insert audiences into a theatrical …
Miniature Golf Flexes its Superpowers at Elmhurst Art Museum
A tad gaudy and slightly fantastical as they sit along suburban thoroughfares, their themes can run the gamut from the aquatic to the Jurassic. A …
Gallery Looks Back at Paradise Before it Was Bulldozed
Romanticism to Ruin: Two Lost Works of Sullivan and Wright, a new exhibit at Lincoln Park’s Wrightwood 659 gallery, makes the obscure sensational. By looking …
Architecture as Art and Legacy: The Obama Presidential Center
Billie Tsien considers architecture a verb; something you experience and stimulates a response. She, along with her husband, Tod Williams, won the commission to design …
Vivian Maier’s Transfixing Pictures
A woman who launched a million whys, Vivian Maier is the kind of person we all wish we could be but would dread becoming. Like …
Blues on Center Stage
Blues, a music form that defines honesty in unforgettable ways, took center stage in Chicago last week. Festivities and concerts were held in scores of …
Journey to Wonderland
Getting away from the known reminds us that the world is a big complex place. You don’t have to go very far to find that …