Meet Our 2010 Green Awards Documentarian, Suree Towfighnia
Tonight at the Shedd Aquarium, Chicago magazine honors the winners of our 2010 Green Awards. The thing about the event—which is really fun and always has great food—is that because...
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Where the Experts Shop
Ever wonder where Chicago's best-dressed people buy their clothes? How about where the city's designers and connoisseurs shop for themselves? We wanted to know. So we asked local experts and...
Books We Like: 'Grounded' by Seth Stevenson
If you're a fan of the Ad Report Card at the online magazine Slate, then you're already familiar with the writing of Seth Stevenson, who has been the column's main...
Allison Torem is the Reason to See Lookingglass's New Play, Trust
Whether you think Trust, a new play that opened Saturday at the Lookingglass Theatre, is a wallop-packing drama about cyberstalking or a made-for-television issues-movie poorly translated to the stage, Allison...
Tale of Two Daleys
The longtime political reporter Ben Joravsky didn't think much of Evan Osnos's profile of Mayor Richard M. Daley in the March 8th issue of the venerable weekly as evidenced by...
37signals cofounder Jason Fried offers advice in new book, “Rework”
Meetings are rubbish—and other anti-business-as-usual musings from a maverick tech entrepreneur
What Arne Learned
President Obama’s new secretary of education takes the lessons of Chicago Public Schools to the big stage
Guest Blog: Keller in the House: Eavesdropping on the $1,500 Dinner
When I found out Thomas Keller was coming to town to cook side-by-side with Grant Achatz, his most famous and successful protégé, I thought to myself: Must. Be. There. The...
Burned: The Story of Grant Achatz's Cancer Recovery
FROM JUNE 2008: Thirty-three-year-old top chef. Stage-four cancer of the tongue. Grant Achatz has been to hell—and back
Guest Blog: Jeff Awards Redux
My take on the Joseph Jefferson Awards, which happened last night at the North Shore Center for the Performing Arts in Skokie, is that the ceremony is pretty boring unless...