Well, it could have been worse. As of 6 a.m., the official snow tally at O'Hare Airport was 17.3 inches. With the final rush of snow just now starting to fall, that places the Blizzard of 2011 as the fifth snowiest on record, with a good chance to surpass the snowfall total of the Blizzard of 1979 by the time this is over. more ›

Now that Spidey 3 and Transformers have opened and iPhone mania is starting to subside, it’s time to find a new place to direct all that geek-out energy. Enter Chicago Tap Theatre’s latest storybook show, The Hourglass in the Stop-Time Chronicles, a CTT collaboration with comic-book artist Andrew Pepoy. Fans of the genre don’t need to be reminded that local boy and Loyola grad Pepoy has inked Spiderman, Superman, Batman, and The Simpsons comix, among... more ›