Because Chicago is so well known for its “Magnificent Mile” retail district—North Michigan Avenue between Oak Street and the Chicago River—it’s all too easy to overlook, or take for granted, the importance of what can be called the city’s cultural corridor: Michigan Avenue stretching south from the river to Roosevelt Road. What an extraordinary array […]
Tag: Fine Arts Building
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Unfinished Business, dance, and music tonight
Former Neo-Futurist Kurt Chiang and current long-distance Lucky Plush ensemble member Mindy Myers have been hoping to collaborate on an original performance piece for years. They finally got around to it (mostly over Zoom) during the pandemic shutdown, and the result, Unfinished Business, continues tonight and tomorrow at 7 PM at Links Hall (3111 N. […]
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The Studebaker gets ready to roll
Last August, I caught up with Jacob Harvey just as he was taking over as the new (and first-ever) managing artistic director of theaters for the Fine Arts Building. At the time, he noted that with the loss of the Royal George as a midsize rental house, the soon-to-be-remodeled Studebaker Theater in the Fine Arts […]
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The Fine Arts theater team makes no little plans
Back in the Pleistocene era (that is, 1986), I spent a few months living downtown in the now-gone Herman Crown Center, a Roosevelt University residence hall that also sheltered students from Columbia College Chicago (where I was enrolled) and the School of the Art Institute. (The building was torn down to make room for Roosevelt’s […]
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DJ and producer Jordan Zawideh drops an homage to oddball old-school house
DJ and producer Jordan Zawideh drops an homage to oddball old-school house, sheet-music institution Performers needs help to survive the pandemic, and more.
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Pianist Charles Joseph Smith celebrates companionship and solitude in a new video
Dr. Charles Joseph Smith collaborated on his new video with filmmakers from Mississippi Records and Raw Music International.
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Bruce Rauner: Congressional GOP tax plan ‘punishing’ for Illinois, and other Chicago news
Also, more than 600 complaints have come in about landlords breaking the city’s heat ordinance.
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Dial Bookshop opens for business in the Fine Arts Building
The owners of Pilsen Community Books now have a second store downtown.
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Mark Kirk drops Trump endorsement ‘after much consideration,’ and other Chicago news
Also, the police department hires an official to help implement reforms.
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Daniel Knox gives our derelicts the beautiful music they deserve
He learned to play piano in hotel lobbies and likes to wander the city alone at night. Now he’s made one of the best singer-songwriter albums of the year.
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Reader’s Agenda Thu 12/12: Drake, 12 Bells of Christmas, and Trapped in a Room With a Zombie
What’s on the Reader‘s Agenda for Thursday, December 12
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Welcome to the dollhouse in Tiffany Gholar’s Fine Arts Building studio
Interior designer Tiffany Gholar plans and builds mini spaces within her colorful studio.
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The migration of the hipster
The migration of the hipster: A Chicago history, 1898-present
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Zoom in: the Loop
Ever wondered where to find the oldest elevators in Chicago?