Christopher Guest, Michael McKean and Harry Shearer will be appearing at The Chicago Theatre on May performing as a Spinal Tap cover band. more ›

A native Chicagoan, it's no wonder that Bob Balaban was bitten early on by the movie bug, since his family is the Balaban of the Balaban & Katz movie threater chain. What's more surprising is how many hats he's worn. He's a character actor royale, appearing in films by everyone from Woody Allen and Christopher Guest to Terry Zwigoff and Robert Altman. (But he's probably best known for playing the NBC exec who's obsessed with Elaine in five episodes of "Seinfeld"). He's also a children's book author and a filmmaker. more ›

In an anti-climatic end to a anti-climatic season, Chicago boy and long-regarded favorite, Matt Lorenz, was affirmed to have the Top Design on Bravo's interior design reality show. The final challenge offered the final two designers more range than they’d received in any previous challenges, with the mission being to design a posh loft in the gallery district of LA. While the premise sounded interesting, the selection of the designers themselves as the client left... more ›