'Can't Help Falling in Love' with Haley Reinhart
There was never a doubt Chicago-native Haley Reinhart would follow in her parents' footsteps after growing up in a musically talented family. After Reinhart climbed onstage at 9 years old to perform alo...
20 years of Chicago Blue Men: The art of chaos, inconsistency
Blue Man Group has been running in Chicago for 20 years now. That's a lot of paint splashed during drum solos, replacement drum heads, marshmallows and Jell-O. But beneath every Blue Man is a real-life...
MAKO 'Runs for Their Lives' to Chicago
Alex Seaver—producer, songwriter and vocalist in MAKO—did not always want to pursue electronic music. After graduating from Juilliard with a degree in classical music in 2011, Seaver decided to pack...
Marshall gone, Bears move on
Take down the highway billboards. Brandon Marshall is no longer on the Chicago Bears.The wide receiver who single-handedly pulled a football out of the air while already mid-air against the San Francisco...
Fandom fanatics to host CG2 convention
Witches, wizards and other magical beings from the college's Muggles Association, Whovian Society and Japanese Anime Club student organizations will gather April 17 and 18 for their second annual Colu...
AS AN ARAB, I grew up eating Arabic food, and falafel is one of my favorites. I always loved to cut a piece of pita bread in half and stuff it with falafel and hummus. The best part about falafel is th...
Voting is millennials' civic duty
By Editorial Board
Despite the best efforts of the Democratic and Republican parties to attract voters for the looming Nov. 4 election, young voters are less likely to participate this year than in the 2012 elections. That is regrettable because this is a vital opportunity to make their voices heard.An April 29 Harvard University Institute of Politics poll found that only 23 percent of voters ages 18–29 plan to vote in the midterm elections. Th...
Anything but Angels
By Assistant Arts & Culture Editor
Putting on their most comfortable pair of jeans to let loose, Chicago's mid-lifers gathered Feb. 5 to dance awkwardly to the grooving sounds of The Black Angels at Park West, 322 W. Armitage Ave.On paper, th...
What to do with G8 funds?
By Vanessa Morton
While the G8 summit was supposed to boost Chicago's economy and status as a world-class city, not everyone was disappointed by the March 5 announcement of its relocation to presidential retreat Camp David.Occupy Chicago reacted by holding a "No G8 Victory Party," at Daley Plaza, 50 W. Washington St., that evening.The decision to move the summit is "a direct response to the overwhelming rejection of the summit and the...
Light on media blackout
By Darryl Holliday
Week two of the "Occupy Chicago" protests came and went, with steadily. growing crowds but wide fluctuations in daily attendance. During the first 14 days, somewhere between 30 and 300 people could typically be seen around LaSalle and Jackson streets or marching toward Grant Park for the movement's twice-daily general assemblies.The numbers have grown from an original four to become one of the largest offshoots of the "Occupy...
Constitution Party forced out of fall election
By Michael Ranieri
The Libertarian Party's statewide candidates have been certified for November's ballot in what the party called a "bittersweet victory," but the State Board of Elections kicked the Constitution Party off the ballot after concluding hearings at the Thompson Center, 100 W. Randolph St.Armed with attorneys, private investigators and a professional handwriting expert, two mysterious men under the names Andrew Heffernan and S...