Culture

This year you can celebrate Mardi Gras with a family-style menu of "Sunday filé gumbo," which features alligator, crawfish, catfish, crab, sausage, ham, chicken and other ingredients. more

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Theater

Daily Rehearsal: 'Kinky Boots' definitely set for Chicago

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February, 22, 2012

1. On Vocalo's Morning AMp today was playwright behind fml: How Carson McCullers Saved My Life, which opens at Steppenwolf next week. Sarah Gubbins was joined by Joanie Schultz to talked about "the queer themes and female-centric narrative and the largely female crew working on the show."... more

Culture

Top 3 at 3: Discoveries from owning a dog

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February, 22, 2012

Listen to Eilee talk about this post on Afternoon ShiftTop 3 at 3 for web.mp3I recently got a dog. I grew up with lots of animals, so I had a pretty good feel for how a dog would impact my life, but here are the top three things nobody warned me about.1) It takes longer to get places by foot. That'... more

Theater

Halena Kays revives 'Six Characters'

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February, 22, 2012

"This year has been wild!” says Halena Kays. And she ticks off the items contributing to wildness: “Take over a company [the Hypocrites], direct some shows [Burning Bluebeard, Six Characters in Search of an Author].” Plus last fall, while performing in The Kid Thing, she found out she was having... more

Culture

An interview with Steve Edwards

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February, 22, 2012

We turned the tables, or the mics, on Steve Edwards this past Friday at The Interview Show. Here, Steve talks about his love for public radio, his history at WBEZ and, of course, his new show, Afternoon Shift. (Note: If you're at work, listen with headphones; there's a little cursing — by me, not... more

Art

Chicago wraps up the first set of meetings to map out the 2012 cultural plan

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February, 22, 2012

"If you can mandate these meetings, mandate some money!" That was one of many recommendations greeted with applause and hollers at a local meeting last night, held at the National Museum of Mexican Fine Art in Chicago's Pilsen neighborhood.Listen to Alison Cuddy on Eight Forty-Eight848 120222... more

Architecture

Jacques Brownson, architect of Daley Center and 55 E. Jackson building dies at 88

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February, 22, 2012

Jacques Brownson, the Aurora-born architect who would create two of the city's brawniest examples of 1960s steel-and-glass modernism as chief architect of the Daley Center and the dark-cloaked 55 E. Jackson skyscraper, has died at age 88.Brownson died Sunday of a heart attack in Colorado, according... more