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A Chicago Staycation

Staycation.  Depending on who you believe, the word’s only been around for the last 13 or 15 years and has lots of supposed fathers.  Originally …

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Dance for Life’s Welcome Live Return

Since its inception 30 years ago, Dance for Life has always been, at its heart, a response of joy.  Conceived by a single dancer as …

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Blue Man Group – Back and in Top Form

The amount of anticipation flowing through Briar St. Theater Wednesday night as a largely hyped audience filled their seats wasn’t expected.  After 17 months, three …

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Chicago’s Deeply Rooted Dance Theater to Perform at Millennium Park

Deeply Rooted Dance Theater resumes live in-person performances, Wednesday, August 25th at Millennium Park’s Pritzker Pavilion.  Presenting “A Deeply Rooted Evening for Chicago’s Healing: GOSHEN”, …

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Eureka! Dragon Gate!

Sometimes what you’re missing most is sitting right under your nose.  For far too long, sniffing out a reliable Chinese restaurant that consistently dishes out …

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Still Time to Catch Portrait Fever at the Art Institute

Certainly former President Barack Obama and his wife Michelle are people who are “admired and idealized for their courage and outstanding achievements”.  Combined with their …

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Surprises Found in Restaurant’s Annual Event

What are you supposed to think about a place where the main entrée is overcooked, the dessert is undercooked and everything else on the fixed …

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Exceptional Summer Jazz in Hyde Park

Summer in Chicago usually means live music spilling out of parks, swirling through neighbor streets and rising from stages set up on hotel rooftops and …

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Last Week to See Memorable Theater: Ride Share

Ride Share, a thrillingly beautiful work written by Reginald Edmund and co-produced by Glencoe’s Writer’s Theatre and Black Lives, Black Words International Project, doesn’t pull …

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