Weekender

From arts to adventure, comedy to culture, each week Alison Cuddy and team scan the Chicago landscape in search of the coolest, most interesting ways to spend your weekend. 

Forget NATO. Embrace art!

Weekender ignores NATO in favor of comedians, cartoonists and performance artists!

Celebrate Mother's Day with art, music—and a 5K race

Weekender celebrates mother love with some pop-up art, a 5K race and some music from St. Vincent.

Cultural offerings, from Cinco de Mayo to Version Fest

We cover Version Fest, Cinco de Mayo, Polish Constitution Day and more!

Bikes, books and beats

From global activists to literacy in Chicago to Diana Ross in Indiana, we've got the right mix of events to help the world and plan your weekend!

Record Store Day & women who rock

We've got a playlist of events and tracks that make a perfect soundtrack to your Record Store Day weekend! 

Events suitable for Friday the 13th and beyond

Just in time for this most superstitious of Fridays, a performance art group brings objects to life, a New Orleans rapper makes Chicago bounce and turtles race as slowly as they want to!

Baseball, Easter eggs and moon tripping

Weekender plays baseball, takes a trip to the moon and stirs a little jazz into some poetry.

Shakespearean pulp and Nigerian beats

Celebrate the weekend by dancing to Afrobeat, eating Indian street treats, watching a play that's equal parts Shakespeare and Tarantino or greening up your neighborhood.

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