Archive for the 'Art Galleries and Museums' Category

Second City Training Center Conservatory Program Shows

I was lucky enough to attend the Second City Training Center’s Conservatory program last year and I lasted through class levels 1a, 1b, 2 and 3 and 2 auditions. I dropped out before the class session #4 started because I was in over my head and I had a day job that I had to maintain [...]

Star Wars Exhibit at the Museum of Science and Industry Chicago

The Museum of Science and Industry in Chicago has a special Star Wars exhibit (Star Wars: Where Science Meets Imagination) running right now through the end of January with all kinds of fun stuff to see. This is a must see for dedicated lifetime Star Wars fans that have all the collectibles and have dressed up [...]

Steppenwolf Theater’s Osage County Wins 6 Jeff Awards in Chicago

This past summer’s local Chicago Theater hit from Steppenwolf Theater August: Osage County won six Joseph Jefferson Awards this year for 2007. The Jeff awards are given to celebrate the best in Chicago theater. (no a Jeff award isn’t an award given by some random guy named Jeff) I saw this play back in August in Chicago and it was [...]

This Weekend in Chicago - November 2, 3, 4

What’s going on in Chicago this weekend?
It’s fall now, the leaves have mostly fallen and we are picking through the last of the Halloween candy and thinking about Thanksgiving and Christmas. (started you shopping yet?) But there are still a lot of things going on in Chicago during this holiday intermission. There are always new movies released [...]

Museum of Modern Ice Paintings Below Zero Gordon Halloran Chicago Millennium Park February

This is new. The City of Chicago is hosting a Museum of Modern Ice exhibit in Millennium Park this February. The City of Chicago’s Tourism Bureau is always coming up with new cool things to see and do in Chicago in the winter since it’s too cold to just hang out and have fun. We like [...]

Dance Chicago Festival at St Alphonsus Theater in November

Dance Chicago is a wonderful festival that runs all through November with several different programs that feature local Chicago Dance Troupes performing different styles of dance. Every dance troupe taking part in the festival is top notch and puts on a spectacular show. Even if you don’t know much about dance, you should go and [...]

Jersey Boys Musical Theater Now Playing in Chicago

I went to go see a preview performance for Jersey Boys at the LaSalle Bank Theater at 18 W Monroe Street in Chicago, IL. The Jersey Boys 2006 Tony Award winning best Musical show runs there through next April of 2008. Tickets range from $37.50 for balcony seats to $147.50 per seat for the front [...]

This Weekend in Chicago - October 12, 13 & 14

There is a lot going on this weekend to choose from, and it is finally cold!  Movies, theater, dance, fashion shows, celebrity chefs, Maytag’s 100 Year Anniversary at the Museum of Science and Industry and a bears Game. If you need to decide what to do this weekend, just pick from this list:
Friday October 12: [...]

This Weekend in Chicago - September 21, 22 and 23rd

It’s about that time again that everyone is wondering what’s happening this weekend in Chicago? And they start to search for something to do this Friday and Saturday night in Chicago. Well there are a lot of movies, art exhibits and events this weekend. And the weather should be great. It should be in the [...]

43rd Chicago International Film Festival - October 4-17, 2007

The Chicago International Film Festival is a great festival celebrating the independent film movement and films made in Chicago. There will be 150 movies from 35 countries to shown in the 2007 festival in local theaters over two weeks in October. I have attended this event for the last 2 years and it has been amazing both times. [...]

Top 5 Chicago Tourist Attractions - Must See Sights

I was asked yesterday what the top 5 things were that someone has to see if they have never been to Chicago. I also get asked “where the bean is”, “how to get to the Art Institute”, “can you go up in the Sears Tower?” and “who makes the best Chicago Pizza?” a lot. I thought [...]