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  • Cannes 2012: Moonrise Kingdom
    Time Out Chicago

    What's going on at Camp Ivanhoe? I snapped that photo 50 paces from the apartment I'm sharing, which is on a hill and normally several hundred feet above the hype on the Croisette, where the Cannes Film Festival kicked off today. Yet here's a promoti

  • Albums of the week | Beach House, Best Coast and Killer Mike
    Time Out Chicago

                      Killer Mike R.A.P. Music Most mainstream rap records are manufactured like Lunchables, and there’s a reason mixtapes are called mixtapes. R.A.P. Music has a unified vision and purpose

  • Last-minute shopping events
    Time Out Chicago

    Fresh from our Shopping inbox, we just got word of four Shopping & Style events happening this week/weekend that are worth checking out:

  • TBS Just for Laughs announces additional headliners
    Time Out Chicago

    TBS Just for Laughs has added yet another round of headliners plus some local showcases and is finally starting to feel like, as it likes to say, a very funny fest. Sarah Silverman will host a night of comedy at the Chicago Theatre on June 16 featuri

  • Steve Winwood at the Chicago Theatre | Photos
    Time Out Chicago

    British soul vet Steve Winwood is still chugging after his early days with Spencer Davis Group and Traffic, as well as collaborations with the Dead. He visited the Chicago Theatre yesterday; check out our photos.

  • American Theater Company announces 2012-2013 season
    Chicago Sun-Times

    Faith, community, school violence and war will be the themes dominating American Theater Company’s 2012-2013 season. Here’s the lineup: + The Catholic Repertory: Two Tony Award-winning plays - John Peilmeier’s “Agnes of God” and John Patr

  • This week's cover story | Summer Preview 2012
    Time Out Chicago

    Here's a sneak preview of what's coming up in this week's Time Out Chicago, on newsstands tomorrow:

  • American Theater Company plans Hair, Doubt, Oz for 2012–13 season
    Time Out Chicago

    American Theater Company artistic director PJ Paparelli plans to follow last year's "restored and revised" The Original Grease by producing the original Hair. Paparelli says he's working with Hair co-creator James Rado to restore lost material from t

  • Logan Square Kitchen to close (and not quietly)
    Time Out Chicago

    Zina Murray probably didn't think opening a shared-use kitchen would be that hard. After all, Kitchen Chicago had been doing it for a few years, and weren't they successful? But time and time again, Murray found herself frustrated by the city, w

  • Claude as a space alien? American Theater Company to stage the original 'Hair'
    Chicago Tribune

    Last year, Chicago's American Theater Company staged the original "Grease." In 2013, artistic director PJ Paparelli has his sights set on the original Off-Broadway version of the iconic hippie musical, "Hair."

  • Sarah Silverman added to Just for Laughs
    Chicago Tribune

    The comic Sarah Silverman has been added to the line-up of the TBS Just for Laughs Festival. Silverman will present an evening of her "favorite comedians" at the Chicago Theatre at 7:30 p.m. and 10:30 p.m. June 16. Tickets for all shows go on sale 10

  • Daily Rehearsal: New Leaf closes shop
    WBEZ 91.5

    1. Henry V from Promethean Theatre Ensemble is apparently not super fantastic, but maybe it's just the play and not the performance?