We're billing this issue as a summer double issue. But the content has evolved. Where the arts used to take a three-month nap ...

From Chaos to Control: Ever’s Curtis Duffy Discusses His Memoir And Next Act Curtis Duffy “is quick to point out that ‘The Bear’… is not based on Ever and that he is not Carmy Berzatto, the tortured, ...

The third annual Chicago Exhibition Weekend has been set for September 19-21. Presented by Gertie & EarlyWork, this edition of CXW will include partnerships with Independent Curators International, ...

DINING & DRINKING Crust Fund Pizza Putting Caviar On A Special Pie “One of the city’s best pizzamakers is about to cross an unusual milestone and is celebrating with a wild pizza laced with ...

D. Lamar Preston’s “Gifted to Me” sculpture is on display at 62nd and Stony near the Hyde Park Academy High School, reports WBBM-TV. “Preston was selected for the Richard Hunt Award, which honors a ...

The Richard and Mary L. Gray Center for Arts and Inquiry at the University of Chicago has announced the fourteenth issue of Portable Gray. “Pope.L: The Chicago Years” is a hardcover edition of their ...

ARIES (March 21-April 19): In the days before lighthouses, some coastal communities used “fire beacons”—elevated structures where people tended open flames to guide sailors. In the coming weeks, Aries ...

Today in Chicago culture: Monday, July 7, 2025.FILM & TELEVISION “The Bear” Renewed For Fifth Season Further montages of familiar Chicago imagery and sensations of kitchen PTSD will return, relays ...

ARIES (March 21-April 19): Greek philosopher Socrates declared, “The unexamined life is not worth living.” That extreme statement is a foundational idea of Western philosophy. It’s hard to do! To be ...

“The Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago announced William Silverstein as the new chair of the board of trustees,” reports Crain’s. “In a statement, the museum said Silverstein, who has been a trustee ...

The Cleveland Museum of Art has acquired Giambologna’s 1572 “Fata Morgana,” “one of only two marble works by the revered Mannerist sculptor in a U.S. museum,” reports The Art Newspaper. The museum ...

Northern Trust, the presenting sponsor of Expo Chicago, “is fully committed to remaining independent, the bank said after the Wall Street Journal reported that Bank of New York Mellon had approached ...