Reverse Effect: Renewing Chicago's Waterways is a historical narrative of the manipulation of the Chicago River and construction of the Chicago Area Waterway System (CAWS); its legal and environmental ramifications; and how to use the waterways as a catalyst for renewal. more ›

We're really looking forward to what our own Roger Kamholz and Sable Kitchen and Bar's Mike Ryan have in store for the audience at the Hungry Brain tomorrow night. more ›

Our own cocktail aficionado, Roger Kamholz, and Sable Bar and Kitchen's Mike Ryan will discuss the origins of the word mixology and the state of Chicago's cocktail scene Sept. 13. more ›

Frasca turns five and Revolution Brewing debuts its collaborative beer with Firestone Walker Brewing. more ›

Today in "Pencil This In:" labor discussions, beer pairings, a pub marks its first anniversary and Chuck guests on a talk show tonight. more ›

Yesterday we looked at some lost murals in Hyde Park, which were whitewashed a couple years ago to make room for new ones. The north wall of the viaduct is now covered with a mosaic-mural bricolage in the style of the North Side murals at Foster and Bryn Mawr, and the south viaduct wall includes more local imagery like a Metra train and prominent black Chicagoans Jean Baptiste Point DuSable and Gwendolyn Brooks. The new murals are gorgeous, no question, but we're still sad to have lost the old ones. more ›

Today we launch a new series in which we talk to notable Chicagoans about what they love about winter in Chicago, and why they stay in the coldest months of the year. more ›

Last month I was given the proverbial offer I couldn't refuse: the chance to work on something with the legendary radio personality, Steve Dahl. For a generation of radio listeners, Dahl's partnership with Garry Meier was appointment radio worth all the detention hours I racked up at Lane Tech listening to them in class, and the overnight rebroadcasts of Steve and Garry on WLUP-AM 1000 made the homesickness of my first couple of years of my Navy hitch bearable. I even followed the Stever through the post-Meier solo years with Buzz Kilman, Wendy Snyder and eventually the final show on Jack-FM and into his current run as a podcast pioneer. Seriously, check out the Dahl Twitter feed and Facebook pages. He and his team have adapted to social media like a duck to water. more ›

Under new host Christiane Amanpour, ABC's Sunday news program "This Week" is in the midst of a transformation from Beltway wonkfest to a show that tackles serious political and social issues in a manner befitting what journalism is supposed to be about. Yesterday, Amanpour moderated a Town Hall discussion on Islam and the current wave of Islamophobia happening throughout the nation, a trend to which Chicago is not immune. more ›

Emanuel Kuntzelman, founder of the Greenheart Initiative, will be at the Chicago Center for the Performing Arts tonight to host a free "lively” discussion called Our Singular Moment, a look at how the present time has the potential to change the world. Kuntzelman’s theory is based on the idea that while society creates its own realities, it can transcend cultural conditioning to evolve a healthier personal and social awareness. The discussion has a foundation in Kuntzelman’s research and experience from his travels, using quantum physics, systems and chaos theory to support his model of social evolution. more ›