Chicago Craft Beer Week continues. Also, a seminar on redistricting in Little Village. more ›

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

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Today's events include a fundraiser featuring Stephanie Izard and a rare Colleen Moore film screening. more ›

Today's listings include an anniversary reading for CHIRP Radio and a Thursday panel looking at the rebirth of Polish Jewish culture. more ›

Today's listings include a spring fiesta, a bike-themed reading and a theatrical reading. more ›

Today's listings include a dance recital, a choral recital and a reading from a novelist's debut.. more ›

Today's listings include a Local H performance, a screening of a Nuremburg documentary and special dinner at North Pond. more ›

Lillstreet Art Center celebrates a milestone, Rock For Kids and a food fest at the French market this weekend. more ›

Today: the Fountainhead breaks out the good stuff for its anniversary. more ›

Wine is always a big hit for Mother's Day, which comes on May 8th this year. And yeah, that is soon. We're giving you the heads up so you can buy tickets to an event or have time to noodle about the perfect wine-themed gift for your mom. more ›

Today's listings include pierogis, BBQ, bourbon, champagne and Chevalier. more ›

Today in "Pencil This In:" a screening of Deliverance, $6 spaghetti, and more. 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 ›

Today in "Pencil This In:" Version Fest kicks off. more ›

Today: a Green City Market event launch, erotic fiction, a Daptone Records showcase at Sub-T and a burger dubbed "Death From Above." more ›

Today in "Pencil This In:" an obscure Louis Jordan film gets a new life at the Portage Theater. more ›

A reminder that tonight's Food Truck Summit at Goose Island Clybourn is a go, rain or more rain. more ›

Today in "Pencil This In:" Flourish Bakery's family dinner tackles sloppy joes, the return of YAWN, a film screening on the subject of Christianity and homosexuality. more ›

Today's listings feature activism, Spanish pop music and an Indonesian style buffet. more ›

Bluebird is holding what they call a “Deep Tasting,” a beer event in collaboration with Left Hand Brewing Company, next Tuesday at 7:30. The company will be serving its entire line of beers, and they will also be pulling some vintage brews out of the back of the refrigerator - pretty much exclusive to this event, unless you know someone who knows someone. As always, Bluebird will serve some food to accompany the booze. Their events are always a great deal, and this is no exception - $25 for the whole deal. Email info@bluebirdchicago.com to reserve a spot. (1749 N. Damen) more ›

Anne Lamott is stopping by the Oak Brook Borders tonight (one of the few Chicagoland locations that’s staying open while the company figures out all that bankruptcy stuff). She is promoting the paperback release of her most recent novel, Imperfect Birds. In this book, she continues the story of Elizabeth Ferguson and her daughter Rosie. As Elizabeth struggles with sobriety, teenager Rosie struggles with her own addiction. For more on Anne Lamott, check out our interview with her last summer. Anne Lamott reads from Imperfect Birds, Oak Brook Borders, 1500 16th Street, Suite D, Oakbrook, 7 p.m. more ›

The dog pictured here is Kimmie Lou, a three-year-old American Bulldog mix with a sweet disposition who was brought to PAWS as a malnourished stray and given leg surgery to help her recover from her life on the streets. The PAWS Professional Board is hosting a fundraiser at Small Bar on Fullerton tonight (1415 W. Fullerton) starting at 7 p.m. The $20 cover for the fundraiser gets you two $5 drink tickets and an appetizer spread, with the proceeds going to cover Kimmie Lou's surgical expenses - around $2000. more ›

Today in "Pencil This In:" new beers from Revolution Brewing, classical music, cocktails at the Peggy Notebaert Nature Museum. more ›

If you have an event you wish for us to consider for "Pencil This In," please e-mail out Tips inbox, Chuck, Tankboy (for arts and events), or Anthony (for food and drink-related events). more ›

Today we bring back our one-time events listing feature "Pencil This In." If you have an upcoming event (like a book signing, cooking demo, concert, film screening, art exhibition, et al.) and wish to include it for consideration, please e-mail tips[AT]Chicagoist.com, Chuck, Tankboy (for A&E listings) or Anthony (for F&D listings). more ›

For the third consecutive year, the Portage Theater gives us a treat during the final week of October and the countdown to the 31st with their "Halloween Havoc," showing two scary movies per night starting tonight through Thursday, with a four-movie marathon capping things off on Friday. They've put together a solid assortment of horror films, mixing masterpieces with lesser films that are, if not classics, then adjacent to the classics. more ›

one sixtyblue has a very interesting dinner scheduled for next Wednesday pairing the cooking of chef Michael McDonald with absinthe cocktails crafted by absinthe historian and chemist Ted Breaux. Breaux was one of the folks behind the re-entry of absinthe in America a couple years back and helped develop Lucid Absinthe, so he's more than qualified to mix some cocktails with the Green Fairy. more ›

• Chicagoan Tom Bosley, best known as Howard "Mr. C" Cunningham on "Happy Days," has passed away at the age of 83. [Sun-Times]
• Tribune CEO Randy Michaels: "I have not resigned." [Tribune]
• A woman was killed this morning after being struck by a southbound Red Line train at the Berwyn stop. [Tribune]
• Johnson & Johnson recalls Tylenol after some customers fell ill taking the pills and complained of musty odors from bottles. [ABC7]
• Time Out Chicago has hired Ivy Lester as its new publisher. [Crain's]
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