Where to Get Stuff Fixed
Austerity is the word these days, and one way to stay within your budget is to get stuff fixed. But where to go? Turn to our guide to Chicago's best...
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Shopper: Fix
Fulton Market’s latest newcomer offers something many Chicago boutiques don’t: clothing for both sexes
Shopper: Reintroducing Oak Street
After spending much of the earlier part of the year under construction, the new, reshuffled Oak Street holds on to its crown as the city’s most prestigious shopping destination. Here...
Shopper: Neapolitan Men
New to Winnetka: a one-stop shop for the sartorial man
Shopper: The Modern Shop
A flashy landmark houses a new source for design
Chalk
A boutique that eschews “sweet” opens in Evanston
Va-Va-Vintage
Our experts did the legwork—driving 446 miles and scouring the racks of dozens of shops—so you don’t have to. The payoff: a guide to the best vintage vendors in town
Killer Wales
Golden BoyLarry Yando—a.k.a. Scrooge in the Goodman’s A Christmas Carol—as Everyman? We are so there. And to those who claim he never met a scene he didn’t chew to toothpicks:...
Brothers, The Bard, B-Movies
The Brothers GrimTwo similar-sounding plays from two very different playwrights unite in an experiment at American Theater Company (1909 W. Byron St.; atcweb.org). Sam Shepard’s True West, about a screenwriter...
Fairey Tales
Newly Knighted Hot off the press: We can put the speculation to bed. Heath Ledger did indeed score a posthumous Oscar nom for his much-buzzed-about turn in The Dark Knight,...