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The days are getting shorter, the weather is getting colder... so cold, in fact, that a woolly mammoth will soon be calling Chicago its temporary home. The best-preserved baby woolly mammoth ever found, named Lyuba, will be on exhibit beginning in March at The Field Museum. It will be the first time Lyuba has been shown in the U.S. since its discovery in 2007.

Looking for a woolly mammoth costume? Ha! Does the pope shit in the woods? Of course you are. Then you're in luck: Tomorrow's the Goodman Theatre's costume sale, and believe it or not, there is indeed a woolly mammoth up for grabs. The Snuffleupagus-esque get-up is from the Goodman's 1992 production of , as is a dinosaur costume (also available!). No word on how crusty/not crusty the 15-year-old outfit is, but we're guessing it's leaning toward the crusty side of things.

Anton Chekhov famously advised aspiring playwrights: If there is a gun hanging on the wall in the first act, it must fire in the last. Craig Wright turns that rule on its head in Grace, his powerful meditation on faith, reason and time now playing at the Northlight Theater. Here, the gun fires during an opening scene staged in reverse. The rest of the show pieces together how protagonists Steve and Sara, a devout Christian couple undone by a sham business deal compromising their faith, and their neighbor Sam, a scientist who doubts God in the wake of tremendous loss, arrive at that violent moment.