0 Business Get cozy at Chicago's best restaurants for Fall dining and drinking Press Release Desk News Partner Posted Reply Press release from Lincoln Square Chamber of Commerce: September 15, 2021 Get cozy at Chicago's best restaurants for Fall dining and drinking by Jacky Runice, Chicago Local Expert / USA Today / September 15, 2021 It's time to reject charcoal lemonade and poké bowls and order anything soaked in smoky whiskey or sticky maple. If a German  experience lifts your spirits, The Publican ' s annual Oktoberfest celebration is your ticket to ride into autumn. In West Town, Funkenhausen's Funktoberfest celebration adds a wunderbar dash of autumn glee. One of the few restaurants left in the city that serves traditional German food, Himmel'sgets even better with its autumn Oktoberfest celebration. Since you're replacing the fashion item of summer, midriff tops, for sweaters and jeans, splurge on … [Read more...]

0 Business The national retailer will be donating the funds to nearby Fulton Elementary at its ribbon cutting ceremony Friday. Yasmeen Sheikah Patch Staff Posted Reply TINLEY PARK, IL — Just in time for fall, the new Burlington location in the remodeled Tinley Park Plaza will open this Friday, according to a news release from the national retailer. Burlington was formerly located around the corner at 7061 W. 159th St. The national retailer, now located at 16001 S. Harlem Ave., is known for its "amazing deals," and affordable products. The new store's hours are Monday-Sunday, 8a.m to 11 p.m. The grand opening event will feature a ribbon cutting ceremony, and the first 100 customers — aged 18 and up — will receive a $5 bonus card to be used towards their purchase. On Saturday, customers will receive a free Burlington umbrella at the location, while supplies last, no purchase necessary. "Our goal is to … [Read more...]

Ellen Stewart, the founder, artistic director and de facto producer of La MaMa Experimental Theater Club , a multicultural hive of avant-garde drama and performance art in New York for almost half a century, died Thursday in Manhattan. She was 91. Ms. Stewart had a history of heart trouble and died at Beth Israel Hospital after a long illness, said Sam Rudy, a spokesman for La MaMa, where she had lived for many years in an apartment above the theater, on East Fourth Street. Ms. Stewart was a dress designer when she started La MaMa in a basement apartment in 1961, a woman entirely without theater experience or even much interest in the theater. But within a few years, and with an indomitable personality, she had become a theater pioneer. Not only did she introduce unusual new work to the stage, she also helped colonize a new territory for the theater, planting a flag in the name of low-budget experimental productions in the East Village of Manhattan and creating the capital of … [Read more...]

In a season of over-the-top future-baroque influences, designers have found their muse in a classically trained German operatic countertenor who fell to earth with white face paint and Dadaesque ensembles. Klaus Nomi’s out-of-this-world look — an androgynous amalgam of intergalactic wanderer and dejected punk clown — could be seen in collections as diverse as Boudicca (stiff triangular skirts), Givenchy (New Wave splashes of red over white) and Paco Rabanne (space-age jackets with important shoulders). It’s only natural that Nomi’s artificial life form should resonate in fashion — his affect was entirely self-created. When Klaus Sperber crash-landed in New York in the early 1970’s, he could have been mistaken for a stylistically challenged exchange student. Fortunately, outsiders were in. Upon meeting the performance artist Ann Magnuson, he belted out an impromptu aria, and she recruited him for Irving Plaza’s New Wave Vaudeville show, where freakishness was de rigueur: a flier from … [Read more...]

Ten years after she released her debut album as St. Vincent , Annie Clark makes her decisive move into mainstream pop with “Masseduction.” She does it in the ways St. Vincent has always worked: accomplished, self-conscious, precise, unblinking, completely in control and exactly as revealing as she wants to be. “I am a lot like you/boys/I am alone like you/girls,” she sings over tense electropop in “Sugarboy,” bonding with listeners even as she acknowledges her separation. “Masseduction” teams St. Vincent with a hitmaking producer and songwriter, Jack Antonoff (Lorde, Taylor Swift, Fun.). Ms. Clark’s voice has always been inviting, a silky mezzo-soprano that can whisper breathy confidences, turn sweetly deadpan or open outward to portray longing and ache, and she uses it as strategically as an actress would, inhabiting characters who may or may not be like her. She writes shapely, boldly arching melodies, and with Mr. Antonoff’s help, she savors their drama on “Masseduction.” … [Read more...]