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Columns & Opinion, On Culture Mar 17, 2021
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Lyric and CSO face the music

A year after the shutdown, they’re bringing it back.
- By Deanna Isaacs
- Tags: On Culture, Lyric Opera, Ring Cyle, Anthony Freud, Americans for the Arts, Andrew Davis, Barrie Kosky, Daniel Catán, Terence Blanchard, Yuval Sharon, Twilight: Gods, avery r. young, Christine Goerke, Chicago Symphony, CSOtv, Jeff Alexander, Ravinia Festival, Video

Arts & Culture, Performing Arts Feature Feb 5, 2020
Ravinia finds a new conductor and curator

Marin Alsop takes on a newly created dual role at the music festival.
- By Deanna Isaacs
- Tags: Performing Arts Feature, Marin Alsop, Ravinia Festival, Welz Kaufmann, Don, Civgin, Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra, Baltimore Symphony Orchestra

Columns & Opinion, On Culture Sep 5, 2019
Happy 101st birthday, Leonard Bernstein

Ravinia debuts its new "experience center" with an exhibit devoted to the maestro.
- By Deanna Isaacs
- Tags: On Culture, Ravinia Festival, RaviniaFestivalMusicBox Experience Center, Leonard Bernstein, Jamie Bernstein, Marin Alsop, Felicia Montealegre, Conspirare, Craig Hella Johnson, "Leonard Bernstein at 100", Matthew Shepard

Music, Music Feature Mar 14, 2019
Ravinia announces its 2019 season

This summer's Highland Park highlights include Queen Latifah, "Weird Al" Yankovic, Michael McDonald and Chaka Khan, Kesha, T.I., Buddy Guy, Jennifer Hudson, and Lyle Lovett.
- By Leor Galil
- Tags: Music Feature, Music, Queen Latifah, Common, T.I., Sting, Steely Dan, Beach Boys, Morrissey, Buddy Guy, Shemekia Copeland, Blues Traveler, Nickelback, "Weird Al" Yankovic, Kesha, Michael McDonald, Chaka Khan, Leonard Bernstein, Stonewall 50, Ravinia, Ravinia Festival, Ravinia schedule, Pavilion, Bennett-Gordon Hall, Martin Theatre

Blogs, Bleader Aug 15, 2018
Getting dizzy at Ravinia when the CSO plays Bernard Herrmann's Vertigo score

The composer gave Hitchcock's films much of their menace.
- By Deanna Isaacs
- Tags: Arts, Film, Music, Ravinia Festival, Bernard Herrmann, Vertigo, Alfred Hitchcock, Kim Novak, Jimmy Stewart, Chicago Symphony Orchestra

Blogs, Bleader Dec 4, 2017
Conductor James Levine accused of sexual misconduct during his time as Ravinia's music director, and other Chicago news

Also, Jim DeRogatis asks why the music industry has given R. Kelly a free pass despite numerous sexual misconduct allegations.
- By Kate Shepherd
- Tags: News, Did You Read __________?, Chicago, Illinois, James Levine, New York City, The Metropolitan Opera, Ravinia Festival, classical music, sexual misconduct, Luis Gutierrez, Proco "Joe" Moreno, R. Kelly, Charlie Rose, Matt Lauer, Kevin Spacey, Louis C.K., Harvey Weinstein, music industry, Sony Music, Chicago Bears, John Fox, Greektown, Pegasus, restaurant closings, curling, Winter Olympics, winter sports

Blogs, Bleader Jul 31, 2017
Windy City Rubber Ducky Derby, Megan Stielstra’s book launch party, and more of the best things to do this week

Leftist comedy in Monkey Wrench, Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf: The Good Parts, and more happenings 7/31-8/3
- By Emily Wasielewski
- Tags: Arts, Do This, Youth Power, Mikva Challenge, Weinberg/Newton Gallery, Wrigley Building Plaza, Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?: The Good Parts, the Public House Theatre, Windy City Rubber Ducky Derby, the Office Trivia, Joe's, Monkey Wrench, Elastic, Megan Stielstra, Uptown Underground, Pierre-Laurent Aimard, Ravinia Festival, Ravinia, I Am Jazz, Center on Halsted

Blogs, Bleader Mar 16, 2017
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Poll: Illinois voters disapprove of both Madigan and Rauner, and other Chicago news

Also, three CPS students wrote an open letter thanking Chance the Rapper.
- By Kate Shepherd
- Tags: News, Did You Read __________?, Chicago, Mike Madigan, Bruce Rauner, Illinois, Chicago Police Department, Eddie Johnson, Department of Justice, Jeff Sessions, police issues, police reform, criminal justice, Circuit Court of Cook County, Topolobampo, Publican Quality Bread, James Beard Awards, Boka Restaurant Group, Next, Chance the Rapper, Chicago Public Schools, Ravinia Festival, John Legend, Stevie Nicks, Aretha Franklin, Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Common, OneRepublic, pop music, rap music, classical music, La La Land, Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra, Video

Blogs, Bleader Jul 29, 2016
Chicago Margarita Festival, CLLAW XXV: Summer Showdown, and more things to do in Chicago this weekend

Fed Up Fest, Chicago Poetry Block Party, and more happenings from July 29-31.
- By Jessica Kim Cohen
- Tags: Arts, Do This, Lincoln Park Zoo, Mon Ami Gabi, Vanille Patisserie, Titanic Live, Titanic, Ravinia Festival, Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Chicago Children's Choir, Fed Up Fest, Chicago Poetry Block Party, Fatimah Asghar, Ric Wilson, Randolph Street Market Festival, Plumbers Hall, Alphabet Soup Vintage, Meema's Treasures, Magic Circle Crepes, Baba Pita, South Shore Cultural Center, Chicago Margarita Festival, Under the Gun Theater, For Those Who Can’t, RoscoeBooks, Harry Potter, J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Cursed Child, Chicago League of Lady Arm Wrestlers, Logan Square Auditorium

Blogs, Bleader Jul 11, 2016
Adele, the Chicago Pin and Patch Pop-up, and more to do this week in Chicago

Detention Hall, Activate: Smell, and more happenings from July 11-14.
- By KT Hawbaker
- Tags: Arts, Do This, Adele, United Center, Hidden Shamrock, Off the Radar Comedy, Detention Hall, Hideout, Sappho's Salon, Women & Children First, Ladylike, Cafe Mustache, The Planets: An HD Odyssey, Ravinia Festival, Activate: Smell, Hard Rock Alley, GirlPinGang, Chicago Pin and Patch Pop-up

Blogs, Bleader Jun 24, 2016
Pride Parade, Bob Dylan, and more things to do in Chicago this weekend

Pride Parade, a sausage fest, a vegan fest, and eight more cool things to do in Chicago this weekend.
- By Sara Cohen
- Tags: Do This, Arts, Food & Drink, Music, Sara Cohen, Weekend, Logan Square Arts Festival, Logan Square, Xenia Rubinos, Screaming Females, Blitzen Trapper, Bob Dylan, Mavis Staples, Ravinia Festival, Vegan Food and Drink Festival, Mic. the Vegan, Radius & Dia.L, Arcadia, Rai, Oshwa the Band, Grant Park, Field Museum, Field Market Days, Greater Chicago Food Depository, Hunger Walk, Jackson Park, Hollywood Beach, Transmale Beach Party, Pride Weekend, Evanston, Fountain Square Art Festival, The Flat Cats, Chris Greene Quartet, The Hat Guys, Trippin Billies, Joe Policastro Trio, Classical Blast, Elston Avenue Sausage and Music Fest, Glam Camp, Murder by Death, Gold Web, HoneyHoney, B96 Summer Bash, Ariana Grande, Meghan Trainor, Calvin Harris, Puth, Mike Posner, Daya, Chicago Pride, Pride Parade, Monica Raymund

Best of Chicago, Reasons to love Chicago Jun 23, 2016
Critics' Picks
Chicago’s North Shore fuels architecture fantasies

The curving streets of the affluent north suburbs are lined with midcentury-modern marvels and the locations of John Hughes movies.
- By Laura Pearson
- Tags: Reasons to love Chicago, North Shore, midcentury modern, architecture, houses, real estate, John Hughes, Wilmette, Kenilworth, Winnetka, Glencoe, Highland Park, Lake Forest, Lake Bluff, Kevin McCallister, Home Alone, Ferris Bueller’s Day Off, Ravinia Festival, Or, Critics' Picks

Blogs, Bleader Mar 3, 2016
Segregation decreases but poverty increases in Chicago's black neighborhoods and other news

Also, the Chicago Tribune endorses Mike Madigan's primary challenger, and the Chicago Shakespeare Theater announces its Navy Pier expansion.
- By Kate Shepherd
- Tags: News, Did You Read __________?, winter weather, poverty, segregation, Chicago Urban League, Mike Madigan, Jason Gonzales, Chicago PD, Hannibal Buress, Tyshawn Lee, police brutality, gun violence, Chicago Shakespeare Theater, Navy Pier, Ravinia Festival, Highland Park, Bob Dylan, Paul Simon, Diana Ross

Blogs, Bleader Aug 26, 2014
Reader's Agenda Tue 8/26: Third Coast Percussion, A Summer's Tale, and the Beach Boys

What's on the Reader's Agenda for Tuesday, August 26
- By Brianna Wellen
- Tags: Do This, Arts, Third Coast Percussion, Rush Hour Concerts, A Summer's Tale, Gene Siskel Film Center, Beach Boys, Ravinia Festival, Temptations

Blogs, Bleader Aug 12, 2014
Can you set Emily Dickinson to music?

Dame Kiri Te Kanawa will sing poems by Emily Dickinson newly set to music by Jake Heggie at Ravinia tonight.
- By Deanna Isaacs
- Tags: Arts, Poetry, Music, Kiri Te Kanawa, Ravinia Festival, Jake Heggie, Emily Dickinson

Blogs, Bleader Aug 15, 2013
The good LED screen: The CSO accompanies The Two Towers at Ravinia

Tonight and tomorrow, the Chicago Symphony Orchestra plays the score of the second film in the "Lord of the Rings" trilogy alongside a high-tech screening.
- By Deanna Isaacs
- Tags: Do This, Arts, Film, Music, Ravinia Festival, Lord of the Rings, The Two Towers, Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Ludwig Wicki, the Chicago Children's Choir, Chicago Chorale, Lakeside Singers, Kaitlyn Lusk, Doug Adams

Blogs, Bleader Aug 15, 2013
Reader's Agenda Thu 8/15: Lord of the Rings music, Raul Jaurena, and the second anniversary of Slo 'Mo

What's on the Reader's Agenda for Thursday, August 15
- By Tosten Burks
- Tags: Do This, Arts, Lord of the Rings, The Two Towers, Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Ravinia Festival, Uruguay, bandoneon, Raul Jaurena, Grant Park, the Whistler, Slo 'Mo

Blogs, Bleader Jul 15, 2013
Best shows to see: Mouthbreathers, Maxim Vengerov, Alasdair Roberts, Future Bible Heroes

Between now and Wednesday, your live-music options include Mouthbreathers, Maxim Vengerov, Alasdair Roberts, Future Bible Heroes, We Are Scientists, and the Hecks.
- By Tosten Burks
- Tags: Do This, Music, Soundboard, live music, concert listings, Mouthbreathers, Maxim Vengerov, Alasdair Roberts, Future Bible Heroes, Permanent Records, Cobra Lounge, Ravinia Festival, Pritzker Pavilion, Lincoln Hall

Arts & Culture, Festival Jun 27, 2013
Pride Weekend events 2013

It's not just about the parade.
- Tags: Festival, Pride Weekend, Back Lot Bash, Pride Parade, Chicago Dyke March, Pride Cruise, Melissa Etheridge, Frat Night Thursday, Jawbreaker!, dance parties, parties, gay composers, music, theater, drinking, run, Melissa Ferrick, Edie Carey, Dot Dot Dot, Uh Huh Her, DJs, Jane Beachy, Scott Cramer, Teen Witch Fan Club, Baathaus, City Winery, Goose Island, Sahara Kabob, Mayne Stage, Berlin, Margate Park, Navy Pier, Ravinia Festival, Scarlet, House of Blues, Lake View Presbyterian Church, Victory Gardens Theater, Center on Halsted, Neo-Futurarium

Blogs, Bleader Jun 19, 2013
Mayor Rahm to Von Steuben: No toilet paper for you!

Mayor Rahm's spending so much cash on his hotel/DePaul basketball arena scheme that he's got no money to buy toilet paper or librarians for the schools.
- By Ben Joravsky
- Tags: Education, News, Von Steuben High School, Mayor Rahm Emanuel, Chicago Public Schools, TIFs, DePaul basketball arena, toilet paper, Gary Sinese, Ravinia Festival, Steppenwolf Theatre, Persepolis, Utah

Blogs, Bleader Aug 17, 2012
Hot ticket: Ravinia's Magic Flute

Ravinia Festival does a big Magic Flute in the little Martin Theatre
- By Deanna Isaacs
- Tags: Do This, Theater, Music, Ravinia Festival, Mozart, The Magic Flute, Chicago Symphony Orchestra, James Conlon, Rene Barbera, Erika Miklosa, Alex Mansoori, Morris Robinson

Blogs, Bleader Jul 4, 2012
At Ravinia Festival, the music's great; the underpass, not so much

On the ugly, obtrusive underpass at Ravinia Festival
- By Deanna Isaacs
- Tags: Independence Week, Variations on a Theme, Ravinia Festival, Stephanie Blythe, Kate Smith, Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Ashley Brown, Irving Berlin, Martin Theatre, Chicago and Milwaukee Electric Railroad

Blogs, Bleader Nov 11, 2011
Hercules and Quinn's A Good Man: Bill T. Jones, on PBS tonight

A Good Man: Bill T. Jones, a documentary on the artistic process from Chicago directors Gordon Quinn and Bob Hercules, airs tonight on PBS.
- By Deanna Isaacs
- Tags: Film, Performing Arts, Dance, Arts, A Good Man: Bill T. Jones, Abraham Lincoln, WTTW, Kartemquin Films, Gordon Quinn, Bob Hercules, Media Process Group, Ravinia Festival, Fondly Do We Hope...Fervently Do We Pray, PBS

Blogs, Bleader Sep 23, 2011
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This week's movie action

New reviews and notable screenings in this week's issue.
- By J.R. Jones
- Tags: Film, Ron Howard, The Dilemma movie, Moneyball, Tsui Hark, Detective Dee and the Mystery of the Phantom Flame, Autoerotic movie, Joe Swanberg, Dolphin Tale, A Good Man, Bill T. Jones, Abraham Lincoln, Ravinia Festival, Killer Elite, Jason Statham, Clive Owen, Robert De Niro, Love Crime, Kristin Scott Thomas, Ludivine Sagnier, Restless movie, Gus Van Sant, Screen Dances: Films by Nadia Oussenko, Chicago Filmmakers, Jacques Tourneur, Cat People, University of Chicago Doc Films, Robert Parrish, Cry Danger, Gene Siskel Film Center, Bob Rafelson, Five Easy Pieces, Music Box, Jacques Feyder, The Kiss, Northbrook Public Libary, Dave Drazin, Sergei Eisenstein, Potemkin, Northwestern University Block Museum of Art, Barbara Loden, Wanda movie, movies, Video

Music, Soundboard Jul 7, 2011
Soundboard: July 7-13

Archers of Loaf, Yob, Tinariwen, Mount Moriah, Emmylou Harris, and other notable shows
- By Peter Margasak, Jessica Hopper, Miles Raymer, Leor Galil, Monica Kendrick, Barbara Yaross, and Bill Meyer
- Tags: Soundboard, Reverend John Wilkins, Mountain Man, Jolie Holland, Mount Moriah, Dave Matthews Band Caravan, Emmylou Harris, Paul Cebar Tomorrow Sound, Jerry Lee Lewis, Kid Cudi, Liturgy, Archers of Loaf, Archers of Loaf, Bombino, Bombino, Tinariwen, Andre Watts, Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Lincoln Hall, Bottom Lounge, Ravinia Festival, Subterranean, Lakeside, Empty Bottle, Congress Theater, SPACE, Welles Park, Pritzker Pavilion, Millennium Park, The Whistler, Schubas, Reggie's Music Joint, Whistler

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