The changes to come

Traveling exhibit 'Climate Change' at Field Museum informs, but lacks urgency

07/07/2010

Exhibit
The smallest things matter when thinking through the causes and implications of climate change. That’s made clear from the beginning of a traveling exhibit about one of the globe’s most pressing challenges. The exhibit debuted last month at the Field Museum.
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Smiling through the madness

06/30/2010

A spoonful of sugar helps the medicine go down. It’s a tired cliché, but it holds truth. The harshest realities can become more palatable and understandable when captured and contextualized with lighter airs. Humor, comedy, satire and irony can illuminate and add power to situations in ways that sober documentation cannot.
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From the under ground

At Chicago Underground Film Festival, weird, wild movies

06/23/2010

A celebration of under-the-radar cinema kicks off on Thursday, June 24 when the Chicago Underground Film Festival returns to the Gene Siskel Film Center. Now in its 17th year, CUFF showcases experimental, avant-garde, independent and underground cinema.
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Where the dead mail goes

Despite ripe context and brilliant set, new play doesn’t know what it wants to be

06/16/2010

Theater
How do you reach anyone down here?” asks a character in Philip Dawkins’ slapdash new play, holding up her cell phone and railing against the painful metaphor of a bad mobile connection.
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Our lit picks

Who we like at this year's festival

06/09/2010

Book fair
Every year in the Chicago Journal offices since time immemorial (or at least since the summer of 2001), staffers have gathered to scrutinize the Printers Row Book Fair listings - sorry, it's Printers Row Lit Fest now - and marked a few of the writers and readers that we think deserve extra attention.
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Sound and fury on the lakefront

5 acts you won't want to miss this summer

06/02/2010

Chicago is second to none when it comes to the quality and quantity of its summer music festivals. A weekend doesn’t pass without a street or park being rocked supreme. Our five favorites for this summer make us sweat just thinking about them.
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Rhawwarh!

For iconic Field Museum T. Rex Sue turns 10th birthday, a 3-D film and robotic dinosaurs

05/26/2010

For dinosaur lovers who have always wanted to visit a real life Jurassic park, without the danger of death, the Field Museum wants to grant your wish. To celebrate the decennial anniversary of the Tyrannosaurus rex fossil known as Sue, officials have enlisted high-tech robots and 3-D technology.
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Sisterhood of the seductive smile

05/26/2010

THERE IS A SISTERHOOD OF THE SEDUCTIVE SMILE. And these powerful women, aware or not, can make or break your mood, your dreams, your lover or your husband!
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Connecting Chicago to coral

Students here, in Fiji, will examine reef issues through the Web

05/19/2010

It's a scene right out of "Finding Nemo," with sea turtles and jellyfish float along above eye-popping coral reefs. Except this is a virtual world and behind the screen sit Chicago high school students exploring the depths.
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With the renters

Home hunting as great theater in "The Pigeons"

05/12/2010

Theater
Chicago renters often go through hair-pulling ordeals trying to find the perfect apartment in the perfect neighborhood surrounded by people perfectly suited to their own lifestyles - all at the right price.
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