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Thursday night at Navy Pier, outside of the typical crowd that tends to fill the halls of Chicago’s landmark by the lake, hundreds of artistically minded locals and flashily dressed visitors made the lengthy trek out to Festival Hall for the 13th EXPO Chicago. Running through Sunday, this year’s art fair features 130 galleries, alongside […]
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The Super Mario Galaxy Movie in wide release in theaters
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The best culinary discoveries often remind me how refreshing it is to wander off the beaten path. Haibayô Café’s croissant bánh mì gives you the heat and pickled veg of a classic bánh mì but subs out the Vietnamese baguette for another French-style bread: the croissant. The sandwich will not only win you over—it’ll stand […]
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When body piercing began shifting in the late 80s and early 90s from an obscure underground practice to something more mainstream, there was a particularly fascinating but fraught character at the center of it all: Fakir Musafar. Born Roland Loomis, the South Dakota–raised former Lutheran lived as an adult in the San Francisco Bay Area, […]
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Lyric Opera of Chicago announced Thursday that its 2026-2027 season will feature seven mainstage operas and—after a four-year hiatus—the return of the spring musical with a new (2025) production of Frank Loesser’s Guys and Dolls. Also on deck: two movies—Encanto and Amadeus—with live performance of the score by the Lyric Opera Orchestra (and, for Amadeus, […]
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