Uptown

Album review: Iron & Wine's 'Kiss Each Other Clean'

2011-01-24 21:35:44

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Monster Mash: L.A. Philharmonic announces new season; Olivier nominations; Kevin Spacey's Middle East theater school

2011-02-07 16:33:00

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Tracy Letts, after the dog days of 'August: Osage County'

2009-10-08 13:44:05

Jones is drama critic of the Chicago Tribune. CHICAGO -- When playwright Tracy Letts walked into New York rehearsals for the touring production of his "August: Osage County" earlier this summer, he did not find the fellow Steppenwolf Theatre Company...

Stingray Touch exhibit opens for summer at Shedd Aquarium

2013-05-15 14:47:00

The surprise isn't that the Shedd Aquarium now has an exhibit where visitors can touch stingrays as they glide by, but rather that the most popular aquarium in the U.S. hasn't had one before now. Usually called something like Stingray Bay or Stingray...

Ambitious Beethoven fest wants listeners to feel the 'love'

2013-05-08 13:57:00

Ludwig van Beethoven was forever pushing boundaries, and the annual Chicago festival that bears the composer's name continues to do the same, even more so than in the past. “Beethoven Festival: LOVE 2013,” as the third edition is titled,...

Is it curtains for Central Park Theatre?

2013-05-08 00:00:00

In a sea of empty lots in Chicago's North Lawndale neighborhood sits a faded relic that is one of the most historically significant American movie theaters still standing. When it opened in 1917, the red-brick, three-story Central Park Theatre was...

Farmers markets after dark: Coming to Logan Square & Uptown

2013-04-30 10:22:00

Get ready to head over to two new Chicago farmers markets set to open soon with night hours. Chicagoans will be able to buy fresh fruit, vegetables and flowers at the markets weekly in Logan Square and Uptown, according to the mayor’s office,...

Annoyance Theatre on the move

2013-04-24 08:43:00

The Annoyance Theatre, a venerable Chicago comedy theater, is on the move. Jennifer Estlin, the theater's owner and executive producer, said Wednesday that it will exit its Uptown digs on the same block of North Broadway as the Uptown Theatre�and move...

Police question man in Wrigleyville shooting

2013-04-22 14:30:00

Authorities are questioning a parolee in connection with a shooting in the Wrigleyville neighborhood over the weekend, police said. No charges have been filed as of Monday afternoon, police said, but authorities are questioning a� 26-year-old man who...

Depression-era artwork returning to public display

2013-02-21 09:44:00

For 38 years, a 6-foot-by-20-foot mural sat rolled up in a local history teacher's home, an all-but-forgotten remnant of a Depression-era effort to bring art directly to the people. But a four-year community fundraising campaign and a yearlong...

A screen's-eye view of Chicago

2013-02-23 15:11:00

Chicago has been involved in filmmaking since the technology's very beginnings in the early 1900s, when some of the world's first movie studios operated here. From those early days, when neighborhood kids would sneak onto the Selig Polyscope Co. lot at...

Purim a favorite holiday for kids

2013-02-18 07:33:00

Turtles and goldfish. If you are Jewish and of a certain age, these may be among your most vivid memories of the Purim festival: a riot of costumes, noisemaking and carnivals that are part and parcel of the celebration of the inspiring story of how...

Devour barbecue at one of the city's meat-centric fests, such as in River North.

2013-05-10 00:00:00

Jose Hernandez, 42, originally from Mexico City, eats hot soup from the Salvation Army food truck on Wilson Avenue and Marine Drive in Chicago's Uptown neighborhood. Hernandez is one of about a dozen men who live under a nearby viaduct.

2013-03-05 00:00:00

The Lakeview Action Coalition holds a rally outside Hotel Chateau in Chicago's Uptown neighborhood.

2013-01-07 00:00:00