Which witch runs this city?

Play sets sights on urban development, with a twist

03/10/2010

Theater review
The Mir Theater, in association with Chicago Department of Cultural Affairs Theater, delves into the oddly intersecting worlds of urban planning, the mob and witchcraft - yes, witchcraft - with a new staging of "Beautiful City."
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Questions left unanswered

Scattershot script does in Hoffman-directed play

03/03/2010

Theater
A Goodman Theater world premiere, "The Long Red Road" is largely set on a South Dakota reservation, but it needn't be: its atrocities have no clear kinship with the historical pains of the Native American people.
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Baking up a good school

Book examines what worked - and what didn't - at 200 city schools

02/24/2010

Book review
A good school, it turns out, is a lot like a cake. Put in sugar, eggs and oil, but forget the flour, and all you end up with is a sweet, sloppy mess. Without all the right ingredients, success will continually evade you.
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The woodsman

Intuit spotlights the work of barber who cut more than hair

02/17/2010

Art
Ulysses Davis spent most of his adult life cutting hair. Born in 1914, the Fitzgerald, Ga. native worked as a blacksmith’s assistant before migrating east with family to sleepy, historic Savannah, where he opened a neighborhood barbershop behind his home in the 1950s. The shop served a dual purpose, though. It was also Davis’ personal art gallery.
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The Cabinet is open ... again

Redmoon Theater revives a past wonder for its birthday celebration

02/10/2010

The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari, Robert Wiene’s silent classic from 1919, is one of the most stylish and influential films ever produced. It’s also one of the creepiest. A hallmark of German Expressionism, the film is a nightmare of off-kilter, exaggerated scenery and extreme chiaroscuro, where a gaunt somnambulist commits murder while under the manipulative hands of an insane asylum director.
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A fine cold day

02/03/2010

Brian Skonesey and his dog, Ace, pull a sled full of kids last Sunday during Snow Days Chicago, free three-day winter festival in Grant Park.
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Indy radio

Going live with a new community station

01/27/2010

Radio
A new independent, community-focused radio station went live on the Web from studios in the North Center neighborhood on Jan. 17. The Chicago Independent Radio Project conceived the station in July 2007, and it has taken 120 volunteers of all ages, a pool of independent donors and approximately $60,000 to fund and produce the nonprofit, music-based station.
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One roof, many options

Grazing at the French Market

01/20/2010

Dining
The minds behind Chicago’s new French Market, the 15,000-square-foot space that opened in the Ogilvie Transportation Center last December, have chosen a rather aspirational name for the venue, enforced by the piped-in soundtrack of Edith Piaf and the Amélie theme.
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Hit the floor

New documentary goes inside the Chicago Board of Trade

01/13/2010

The Chicago Board of Trade is a mystifying place: an arena of bodies clad in multicolor jackets screaming at each other and gesticulating rapid-fire while rainbows of ascending and descending numbers flash on electronic screens overhead. There is an aura of an out-of-control circus. Amidst this madness, fortunes are made and lost in an instant.
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Viva Italia

Italian cinema in transition at the Museum of Contemporary Art

01/06/2010

The Museum of Contemporary Art presents an interesting survey of Italian cinema this month with the Italics Film Series, a program running in conjunction with “Italics: Italian Art between Tradition and Revolution 1968-2008,” the museum’s current showcase exhibit.
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