Results tagged “genart”

O.K., so Chicago isn’t known around the world as a fashion capital, but we’re working on it. Chicago Fashion Week will soon celebrate its second anniversary, helping the connoisseurs of couture to discover there’s something to see between the coasts.

You know why we love Chicago? Sometimes it feels as though we are living in one of those undiscovered destinations where only locals know the amazing surprises that await. We’ve had friends come into town, fully believing that Chicago is a city where people spend the day chomping on pizza and beef and going to sports games (and requisite crappy sports bars) while wearing grubby clothes. However, after a visit to the parts of the...

Crime Fiction started life in 2005 as a modestly-budgeted project by some University of Chicago students. It's a sly dark comedy of artistic ambition, deceit and murder (no, it is not based on the day-to-day workings of Chicagoist). When we last chatted with associate producer Marc DeMoss in January, it had just gotten into the Slamdance Film Festival. That screening seems to have been some kind of golden ticket, because since then it's played at...

Chicagoist has been told our entire lives that time is money, and today we learn that the price of procrastination is $10. In order to get Lollapalooza three-day passes at $130, we have to act now. Perry Farrell is announcing more acts tomorrow morning, and after that...all bets are off, and we have to shell out the bigger bucks.