The magazine that helped launch the Occupy Wall Street movement is calling for 50,000 protesters to come to Chicago for the NATO and G-8 summits in May. Adbusters posted a tactical briefing on its website that called for a showdown in the city.  That rally cry, however, was news to Occupy Chicago.

Nearly a year after a devastating earthquake, fears of food in Japan persist. But signs of hope have begun to re-emerge, as evidenced by a kaiseki lunch in Evanston.

For Indianapolis, preparing to host the Super Bowl is not all fun and games. In addition to crowds and revelers, planners are trying to deal with homelessness and human sex trafficking as kickoff nears.

Celebrate the weekend by making like a polar bear in Lake Michigan, wriggle into a play about Houdini, and swoon over a married couple's musical ways.