The magazine is celebrating its 100th anniversary, a perfect occasion to look back at that Second City moniker, and a few others.
Column: As The New Yorker marks 100 years, reflecting on Chicago’s many nicknames
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North Coast Music Festival announces headliners for 2025, including a return for deadmau5
North Coast Music Festival has announced the first of its lineup for summer 2025, including a return for deadmau5, the Grammy winner ZEDD, dubstep artist Excision, Chris Lake, Kaskade and Louis The Child. The 15th-anniversary electronic music event is coming Aug. 29-31 on the SeatGeek Stadium campus in Bridgeview. Tickets are on sale at northcoastfestival.com. […]
Goodman Theatre’s big 100th season: David Byrne, an ‘Office’ star and the return of Robert Falls
The theater has announced its hugely ambitious 2025-26 season, which will also include a pre-Broadway premiere starring Megan Mullally and a musical by Tom Morello of Rage Against the Machine.
Filmspotting Fest is inspired by podcasts from that curious species of movie fan — the film critic
Its series of films at the Music Box and Siskel Film Center ranges from “Tangerine” to “Take Shelter” to “Columbus.”
Column: Shakespeare Project of Chicago will present a new dramatization of Ben Hecht’s memoir at the Newberry
The little-recognized theater company is now celebrating its 30th season: “We are under the radar. We are up and gone in a weekend.”
Review: ‘Waitress’ at the Paramount Theatre is a charming show with songs you’ll remember
Since 2016, the Sara Bareilles songs like “She Used to Be Mine” and “When He Sees Me” have become staples of cabarets, auditions and YouTube videos.
Joffrey Ballet’s 2025-26 season celebrates 70 years as ‘mavericks of dance,’ plus Chicago premieres of ‘Carmen’ and ‘Eugene Onegin’
The season also marks 30 years since the New York company relocated to Chicago, and a decade with Christopher Wheeldon’s “The Nutcracker.”
B-Series hip hop festival opens at a Dance Center fighting for survival
This year’s theme is “B-yond Borders,” aimed at showcasing kinship between hip hop and social dance forms abroad.
Review: ‘Cygnus’ at Gift Theatre is a ‘Succession’ writer’s powerful evocation of trauma and recovery
The excellent Angela Morris stars as a traumatized young woman who believes she has a guardian angel, wings and all.
‘Captain America’ dives in second weekend, ‘The Monkey’ adds to Neon’s successes
“Brave New World,” the latest sign that the Marvel machine isn’t quite what it used to be, remained No. 1 at the box office in its second frame with $28.2 million in ticket sales, according to studio estimates Sunday.