Results tagged “lalaland”

You know it's a slow sports week in town when columnists from the big newspapers start sounding like the drunk guy at the corner bar yelling at the TV during the game, certain he could assemble a better team than the one that management has put together. So who is their target? In his column today Mike Downey follows Jay Mariotti in demanding that the Bulls need to trade for Kobe Bryant. There has been...

Best Life magazine, a.k.a. Men’s Health for the thinking man, has anointed Evanston’s own Jeremy Piven as this month’s sophisticated man’s man. Growing up a theatrical rugrat in a theater-crazy town has paid off, as Piven’s string of supporting roles landed him the testosteroney lead in the HBO series "Entourage." After years of riffing with Ellen, the Cusacks, and the Justice League, Piven is coming into his own. Most of the piece treads well-worn territory....

October is almost upon us, which means it’s time for cool weather, trick-or-treating and more film festivals than you can shake a sprocket at. The Chicago International Film Festival begins next week with the Humanities, Reeling and Music Box Masascre fests soon to follow. This weekend is the appetizer to that full-course meal as the Chicago International REEL Shorts Festival begins tonight and runs through Sunday. The schedule is impossible to find through their main...

Sara Wookey’s dance performance pieces aim to demolish the wall between artists and audience that too often has us scratching our heads at performance art. On her website, she talks about rejecting “a specific insular dance language that often excludes the public,” and achieves this by merging everyday experiences like waiting at the airport or looking in the mirror with a slate of strong, physical choreography.

Chicagoist leapt for joy a while back when we heard that superstar architect Santiago Calatrava was working on Lake Shore Drive residential highrises - but we had no idea just how high those rises would be. The Fordham Company, the developer of high-end residential real estate properties that is pushing this project forward, is expected to announce today a proposed $500 million building that would be the country's tallest, nearing 1,500 feet at its habitable...