Morgan Freeman spoke the words, but pretty much everyone who took the stage at the presentation of the AFI Life Achievement Award agreed: “ Nicole Kidman. She makes movies better.”
So you want to beautify your landscape, improve your community, or celebrate Arbor Day by planting a tree. What could go wrong? Quite a bit, if you make some common mistakes, according to an expert at The Morton Arboretum, the tree-focused public garden in Lisle. “Proper planting is critical,” said Trinity Pierce, who has overseen the planting of thousands of trees as stewardship manager of the Arboretum’s Chicago Region Trees Initiative. “Taking time to do it right can mean decades more life for your tree.” Here are some common tree-planting mistakes to avoid. For step-by-step advice, see mortonarb.org/how-to-plant-a-tree. Digging a […]
On April 28, 1990, the musical “A Chorus Line” closed after 6,137 performances on Broadway.
Under the plan, bars and entrepreneurs elsewhere will be able to apply to use The Sports Bra brand for their franchises.
She can sell out the United Center with her comedy, but this time she’s doing Shakespeare, suckers. And eye-opening Shakespeare at that.
I am interested in using more microgreens and would like some advice on how to grow them at home. — Rissi Melecio, Highland Park We could all use some tips about improving our diets, and microgreens are a great place to start. Microgreens are the sprouted seeds of edible vegetables and herbs grown in small, shallow containers. Routinely used by fine dining chefs, they have intense flavors and add visual appeal to dishes. They are also good for you, with a high concentration of nutrients. They are difficult to find in stores and expensive to buy — but easy to […]
I started the new Netflix series “Ripley” as a decided skeptic. The show’s source material, “The Talented Mr. Ripley” by Patricia Highsmith, is one of my desert island books. The novel is a sui generis portrayal of a character without apparent conscience, but whom we nonetheless feel great attachment to. Other writers have been trying […]
For this latest visit, the first in a while, the two orchestras went for selections from Prokofiev’s “Romeo and Juliet.”
Summer Smash has announced its lineup for summer, with headliners including Travis Scott, Playboi Carti and Chief Keef. Lyrical Lemonade Sumer Smash will be June 14-16, again at SeatGeek Stadium, 7000 S. Harlem Ave., Bridgeview. Tickets for the three-day hip hop music festival, presented by SPKRBX, are on sale at 10 a.m. Friday, with three-day passes $385; more information at https://www.thesummersmash.com/ Travis Scott’s opening night concert will be a first-time collaboration with his Cactus Jack record label including Don Tolliver and Sheck Wes. FRIDAY: Cactus Jack,
There’ll be more than one story to write about “Sundance Institute x Chicago,” coming to town June 28-30. Consider these to be some preliminary questions to be answered in a couple of months. A sort of pop-up import, sponsored by the Chicago Film Office and Choose Chicago, the city’s tourism bureau, “Sundance Institute x Chicago” is the power of branding incarnate. The event will consist of a modest four-screening package of titles that premiered in January at the annual Sundance Film Festival of Park City, Utah fame. The off-screen activity’s the apparent bigger deal: panels, discussions, filmmaker-centric meetups, patterned after […]