Chicagoist doesn’t know if it’s the holiday season that has us thinking about universal human truths, or all the conflict that is happening around the world. Sometimes we get overwhelmed with how much it takes to change the world. Then a couple of people get together and prove that it doesn't have to be that hard. more ›

Hubbard Street Dance Chicago shares our midwestern stubbornness, treating this day forward as spring, windy snowy forecast be damned. So it is with their 2006 Spring Season, a celebration of past and present Hubbard Street artists and choreographers which opens tonight at the Harris Theater. Touring extensively to win friends across the modern dance world, limiting their Chicago engagements to build the hometown hype, HSDC’s contemporary work is provocative enough for the die hard fans... more ›

We may be suffering from a lingering hangover this morning (and woe to the Jenna Bush lookalike next to us who surrendered after the first act), but we’ll still be heading over to Symphony Center tonight to check out the one-night-only triple bill of Chicago Sinfonietta, Poi Dog Pondering, and Antonin Dvořák. more ›