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Chicago on Foot: We Tour the New Old Post Office and You Can Do the Same
We Chicagoans have memories of the old post office. You know, the building you drive through on the Ike when you’re heading into the Loop? The one where you walk into a marble lobby to buy stamps from a clerk behind a marble counter? The one where you drive up and hand your income tax return to an anonymous soul at 5 minutes before midnight on tax day, assured it will be postmarked with that day’s date?
Review: In Janet Planet, a Mother and Daughter Navigate a Shifting Gravitational Pull
In some ways, it's a wonder a film like Janet Planet, a quiet but quite lovely rumination on mother-daughter relationships, can even get made these days. Writer/director Annie Baker, in her feature filmmaking debut, delivers a character-driven, female-centric period piece (the film takes place in 1991) that doesn't have much to recommend it in a climate where films with motorized vehicles large and small are making a splash this summer.
Interview: Chicago-Based Ghostlight Filmmakers on Casting a Real-Life Family, Theater as Therapy and More
In the current film industry landscape, Kelly O’Sullivan and Alex Thompson are two of the highest-profile, Chicago-based filmmakers working today. That's due in large part to their latest work, Ghostlight, which debuted at Sundance earlier this year and enjoyed a celebrated festival run that included an Audience Award-winning stop at the Chicago Critics Film Festival in May to a packed house.
Your Chicago Curated Weekend: 6/20 and Beyond
Today's the first day where the temps are not well into the 90s, but the weekend is looking to be as hot as the last few days. So that means beautiful weather to go out and discover all the amazing things to do this weekend from amazing concerts at our favorite venues, great movies throughout the city, markets, art exhibitions, and much more just waiting for you! Don't let these fantastic events pass you by; start planning your perfect weekend in Chicago!
Review: Black Ensemble Theater Gives the People What They Want in The Salon
Black Ensemble Theater (BET) has been a mainstay of Black theater for almost 50 years. That takes grit which is a step above determination. It takes vision, talent, and fearlessness—the partial sum of founder Jackie Taylor. I say partially because Taylor mentors young playwrights, designers, and talented actors. The Salon is the latest BET production, written and directed by Michelle Reneé Bester. It is described as an overdue appreciation of hair, excellence, and legacy in the Black community. It is based on Bester's sister and her experience as a salon owner. The Salon is an appreciation and tribute to all three but is short on dramatic substance.
Kitchen Test: A Cook’s Review of The New Chicago Diner Cookbook
Meat-free since 1983 in a city filled with hotdog stands and beef sandwiches is reason enough to know the flavor is there to keep The Chicago Diner the long-lasting vegan institution that it is. In 2014 Jo A. Kaucher, Kat Berry and The Chicago Diner crew put out their favorite recipes for customers to make at home in The New Chicago Diner Cookbook (Midway, an imprint of Agate Publishing). My robust cookbook collection already holds many vegan and vegetarian titles alongside the standard tomes and chef favorites. After cooking through the Chicago Diner’s cookbook, I quickly realized why my other plant-based books stayed on the shelf, only being used for select recipes, filled with markings of “not good, do not make again”, they lacked the full-on satiety that the Chicago Diner provides. The entire week that I cooked through this cookbook, my daughter whose diet mainly consists of bread and cheese, constantly proclaimed that she loved every recipe. She loved the cookbook, she loved the food, and each and every time I reminded her that those recipes, those meals, were all made with only plants.
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