In memoriam: Musician Stuart Rosenberg turned the world from ‘black and white to Technicolor’
“I love everything, all music, and that’s why I do what I do. My great passion has always been to share the things I love.”
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Column: ‘Underbelly’ podcast offers a most compelling tale of a most unlikely spy and his Chicago connections
There are a lot of fictional spies, but none of them can prepare you for Dave Rupert, the compelling real-life centerpiece of a 12-part podcast series called “Underbelly: The Rebel...
Column: New book ‘Lost in America’ offers ghost stories of buildings in Chicago and across the country
Among Chicago's demolished architectural treasures are the Stock Exchange Building, Dearborn Station Trainshed and Granada Theater, "one of the largest and most ornate movie palaces ever built."
Remembering Jay Robert Nash, a prolific writer with a huge personality
He wrote dozens of books and spun countless tales, many of them in Chicago taverns and some of them true. He died on April 22 at age 86.
From Devo to women’s soccer, Doc10 film fest shows us the real world
The Doc10 documentary film festival is a spirited gathering that will go a long way to redefining whatever it is you think of when you think “documentary.”
Musician Steve Rashid plans a concert in Evanston at the Studio5 venue he helped create
As writer Maya Angelou once put it, “You can't use up creativity. The more you use, the more you have.”
Callie Siskel’s poetry book ‘Two Minds’ connects with her late father Gene Siskel
Her first book “Two Minds” is a collection of nearly 50 poems dedicated to her father. It's a celebration more than elegy.
Un lugar del lado sur para escuchar historias de ‘voces auténticas de Chicago,’ así es The Frunchroom
Contar historias es tan antiguo como el tiempo y la fogata más cercana, y aunque vivimos en una era electrónica cada vez más gélida, en ciertos rincones de la ciudad...
Times change, but City News Cafe stays the course as the place with thousands of magazines
The store often attracts customers from nearby states such as Indiana, Wisconsin, Michigan and Iowa.
A South Side place to hear stories from ‘authentic Chicago voices,’ that’s The Frunchroom
In 2015, Scott Smith started The Frunchroom, a place on the South Side for public reading events.