Nancy Maes

In conjunction with the "Chocolate" exhibit at the Field Museum, Ken Hao, an associate research scholar at Columbia University, will give a lecture on "Life is Like a Box of...

Two films have been scheduled as part of the "One Book, One Chicago" program, which currently features Willa Cather's book "My Antonia." A screening of the movie adaptation of the...

"The Vanishing," the 1988 film by Dutch director George Sluizer, has been scheduled as part of the "International Dinner & a Movie Series" Tuesday at the Chicago Cultural Center. A...

Children can take advantage of Chicago's autumn breezes by building and decorating their own paper kite and then watching it soar into the sky at the Kids & Kites Festival....

"Cyberman" is an 85-minute documentary by Peter Lynch that chronicles the experience of Steve Mann, a Canadian university professor and self-styled cyborg. He has hooked up his body to a...

The Chicago International Children's Film Festival, which is celebrating its 19th year and is set to run Oct. 24 to Nov. 3 at Facets Multimedia, is launching a program to...

Filmmaker David Waud, who is a Lake Forest resident, will be present for the premiere of his latest film, "Down Under," which chronicles his six-month expedition in Australia with his...

What do you call a concert where a lot of children's recording artists perform ? Kidstock, naturally, in honor of Woodstock. "Hopefully there won't be a lot of mud and...

The Oriental Institute Museum has scheduled two films from the PBS series "Legacy: Origins of Civilization." "Iraq: Cradle of Civilization" will be presented Sunday, and "Egypt: Habit of Civilization" will...

Three films have been scheduled to complement the photographs of folk artists, musicians and beatniks by John Cohen in the exhibition "There Is No Eye." They include Cohen's first film...