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Science reporter Joshua Foer was standing outside the building where the U.S.A. National Memory Championship competition was taking place.

You told us what you'll be doing, and we talked about it on air. For this weekend's reference:Emily Bollman will be going to Louder Than a Bomb, Chicago’s largest teen poetry competition. Performances take place all weekend at Columbia College Chicago and The Chicago Cultural Center.

There is a time lag between when one can spoof a decade and when one must pay homage to the very same decade.  The 1950's were sport for comedians and artists during the 1960's (one can argue that many of the fashions and civil unrest were direct reactions to the decade previous) but became a d

The Department of Cultural Affairs and Special Events (DCASE) has begun to fulfill Rahm Emmanuel’s campaign promise to draft a comprehensive cultural plan for the City of Chicago. We haven’t had a new one since 1986 when Mayor Harold Washington first established the Dept.

So a couple of weekends ago I wound up feeling like a real doofus. Regular listeners may recall one of Weekender's picks in early February was the Flynt Flossy/Turquoise Jeep show at Reggie's Rock Club in the South Loop.

Facing a boycott backed by two Chicago aldermen, a Northwest Side bakery owner on Thursday afternoon apologized for comments some Puerto Ricans had called racist.TipsyCake proprietor Naomi Levine posted the apology on Facebook, calling the comments “insensitive” and acknowledging she “never took any