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Hungry for some fresh theater? The folks at Pavement Group, in collaboration with 20 high school students from Steppenwolf's Young Adult Council, are cooking up the fourth annual Amuse Bouche project-a...
View ArticleGood Samaritans or robbers?
Twin brothers were accused of robbery Sunday after one of them allegedly snatched a man's cellphone on the Brown Line and the other pretended to be a Good Samaritan to help him evade capture.Alvin and...
View ArticleBlue Line closures, woes continue
Call it another case of the Blue Line blues.Just days after the CTA restored Blue Line service between the Rosemont and O'Hare stations following a train crash at O'Hare, the agency shut down service...
View ArticleSmooth beats, dingy lyrics
**1/2 (out of 4)While Chuck Inglish has gained fame as half of Chicago hip-hop duo The Cool Kids, the Detroit-native rapper (born Evan Ingersoll) hasn't been properly recognized for his ability to...
View Article13-year-old behind graffiti
A 13-year-old boy has been charged with defacing more than a dozen statues in a Grant Park sculpture exhibition over the weekend.The exhibition, which is titled "Borders" and is on loan from Icelandic...
View ArticleGrand theft audio
On any given night, a Chicagoan has dozens of opportunities to hear live musicians perform. But that also means a thief has at least as many chances to nab thousands of dollars worth of music gear from...
View ArticleJack White, Justin Timberlake, more
***= Recommended showsOn sale 9 a.m. FridayCeltic Thunder, Sunday, Nov. 30 ($32.50, all ages) at Chicago Theatre.On sale 10 a.m. FridayO.A.R., Phillip Phillips, Saturday, June 21 ($42.50, all ages) at...
View ArticleReport: Macing on the Red Line
The CTA is looking into a report of Mace being sprayed on a Red Line train Tuesday afternoon.About 12:15 p.m., a northbound Red Line train operator was alerted that a rider had sprayed Mace in a rail...
View Article10+ Chicago races to run in April
Now that the snow has melted and the sidewalks and streets are actually visible, it's time to lace up those running shoes. RedEye has compiled a list of April races to run in Chicago. (Information...
View ArticleNicki Minaj spotlights Chicago violence
"Chi-raq" is a loaded word, isn't it? The term, made popular by the Chicago rap scene in 2012 (but most likely hit mainstream consciousness in Kanye West's "Black Skinhead") and the name of Nicki...
View ArticleUnion solidarity instead of Final Four
You know what would have been better than Connecticut winning the NCAA tournament the other night? It would have been better-and I say this as a college basketball fan-if Florida, Wisconsin, UConn and...
View Article'You're an A!'
Now that's a pot shot. The Second City Network continued Wednesday it's string of spot-on shorts about Chicago's winter with a video thanking Mayor Rahm Emanuel for the city's potholes. Who would do...
View ArticleBlackhawks new leader
To many fans' surprise and delight, the Blackhawks are riding a three-game winning streak while playing without Patrick Kane and Jonathan Toews. The team has picked up their on-ice workload as a unit,...
View ArticleTo Spanx or not to Spanx?
I stood up in my first wedding this spring, an experience that was delightful, harrowing and made me deeply question my feminist sensibilities. It wasn't the traditional virgin-white dress or the...
View ArticleHatha-haters beware
Now this in my kind of hippity-hop. On Tuesday's "The Tonight Show," Jimmy Fallon and Anne Hathaway performed Broadway versions of famous rap songs.They gave a show-tune makeover to Snoop Dogg's "Gin...
View ArticleCTA replica, water tower DJ
Forget the Green Line. There's a new "L" on the West Side.Event Creative, a Chicago event design and production agency, fashioned an "L" system for a U.S. Travel Association event this week at...
View Article21 injured in stabbing spree at Pittsburgh-area high school
A 16-year-old Pennsylvania student was charged as an adult with multiple counts of attempted homicide and assault in the stabbing rampage that left 22 people wounded at his high school on Wednesday, a...
View ArticleA new cycling community
When Annie Byrne and Vanessa Buccella met on a cycling team in 2012, both wondered why the sport often seemed skewed toward men. To attract more women to cycling, they started a meet-up group for...
View ArticleDoctor accused of videotaping women
A doctor with the Chicago Eye Institute was arrested Tuesday afternoon after he was accused of videotaping four women in a restroom and a locker room at his offices in Lakeview and Irving Park.Robert...
View Article45+ new Chicago bar, restaurant patios
So, winter of 2014, right? That's all we have to say about Chiberia, snowpocalypse, polar vortex-whatever it was we all just lived through. Patio season is always highly anticipated in Chicago, but...
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