Three people were stabbed in Granddaddy's Deli on the 2300 block of West Taylor this afternoon. [WBBM] more ›

Chicagoist commenters now have avatars! If you have a profile (and if you don't yet, why not register?), just go to "Edit Profile" and upload a 100 x 100 pixel image. Then try commenting (on this post!), and bask in the glory of our ever-improving commenting system. For now, the default icon for registered users across the Gothamist network is a panda, which is a nod to Executive Editor and Gothamist Co-Founder Jen Chung's well-documented... more ›

We're guessing most of you are hungover from St. Patrick's Day. We are too. But still, we're going to muddle on through our green haze and give you (drum roll please...) this Week In -ists. We start with SFist which broke the -ist record for comments with nearly 500 comments on a post about our Mayor's girlfriend. She responded back on charges that she's not a "girl's girl" and, whoo boy-- the floodgates? They... more ›

We have been caught saying that we wish we had been born left-handed and/or a twin. We are neither. But there's something magical about twins. They have secret languages, they can play pranks on you, and there seems to be an amazing bond between twins that often crosses over into the metaphysical and "Ripley's Believe It Or Not" material. more ›

God, we're so sick of Snakes on a Plane that we want to kill anyone and everyone that makes a "something on a something" joke. But then we realized that there was no way we could ever win this fight, and, hell, if you can't beat them, we might as well join them. And with that, you have the theme of this weeks' Gothamist network post. Austinist makes it easy for us, with Candidate on... more ›

The Goodman Theatre is welcoming David Mamet back home, throwing a party to celebrate the native son, his prolific career and versatile success. Mamet’s best known as the writer of such honest, bruising work as Glengarry Glen Ross, Sexual Perversity in Chicago, and American Buffalo, where characters fight a soul-crushing world and deliver rapid-fire dialogue, spouting salty terms like f&*#^ng c#^>$*{(~#s. But the Pulitzer Prize winner has also written clever nostalgic s#’% like The Old... more ›

The Goodman Theatre (that's r-e 'cause they're fancy) has announced their 2005-6 season. In the Albert will be the musical Purlie, based on the play Purlie Victorious by the late Ossie Davis; Shakespeare's Pericles directed by Mary Zimmerman; 2005 Pulitzer Prize finalist The Clean House; and The Dreams of Sarah Breedlove, from Regina Taylor, the director of last year's sensation Crowns. In the Owen, it's Stephen Lang's one-man show Beyond Glory and Crumbs from the... more ›

Chicagoist always hears that bad things happen in threes, and if that's true, the Lincoln Park Zoo is hopefully at the “tail end” (har!) of a streak that has left three major zoo attractions grazing in the great unfenced pastures in the sky. October saw the tragic tuberculosis-related death of a 35-year-old African elephant named Tatima, while in January, another African elephant – Peaches – died of apparent old age (at 55, she was the... more ›