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In season two, Girls just wanna make sensible life decisions
Top 5 fiction of the year
Get your nose into these short and long stories that rocked our year.
A long-term relationship gets high exposure in Keep the Lights On
Steeped in reality, Ira Sachs’s latest film is a brutally honest rumination on a deteriorating relationship.
Rookie hits home run for young, fashionable feminists
The popular online magazine, started by teen prodigy Tavi Gevinson, celebrates its first anniversary.
O-Issue 2012: Chicago cinema
Movies aren’t just filmed in Chicago, we have silver screens, too
O-Issue 2012: Chicago Theater
Once upon a time, Girls was that hot new shit that was featured on the cover of New York Magazine, hailed as the next great cultural game-changer, and praised for its honest portrayal of young twenty-somethings (many of them, thankfully,…
O-Issue 2012: Harper Court and 53rd Street Development
Businesses are springing up all over 53rd Street, bringing some amenities to Hyde Park for the first time
O-Issue 2012: Campus art
Even the museums here are Smart
O-Issue 2012: LGBTQ resources
From queer film screenings to mixers with graduate students and alumni, LGBTQ resources abound
O-Issue 2012: Dating
Though the slogans might have some truth to them, students here don’t actually date squirrels
A brief history of the UCPD
“There are no firm records, it may surprise you, on the history of the Department.”
Summer Breeze 2012
Scenes from this year’s Summer Breeze concert.
Five Valentine’s Day dates that are OKCupid
Date ideas for the too-cool-for-Valentine’s-Day set.
Top 5 Picks of 2011
Check out our picks for the best (and worst) of 2011.
Positively 53rd Street
The Harper Court development promises some additions that would be normal for any college area—a movie theater, hotel, and 24-hour diner, just to name a few. But what’s unique about the project isn’t just that it centralizes all of these necessities; it’s bringing them all to Hyde Park for the first time.
Top 5 Albums
2011′s releases were a mixed bag.
Soft core, hard covers
Didion, Murakami, Eugenides and DeLillo are all waiting for you after finals.
Blue Nights
Journalistic titan Joan Didion casts a cold eye on grief.
Classic Hollywood fuels wild Drive
We’re left with a cool and unsettling story of a truly imaginary character—someone who will never exist in real life, just as he barely exists on the screen.
Goodman paints a vivid portrait of Rothko
Like the swaths of red in Rothko’s paintings, the painters’ outbursts and breakdowns are what give the play life.
O-Issue 2011: Chicago cinema
Movies aren’t just filmed in Chicago, we have silver screens too.
O-Issue 2011: Chicago theater
It’s not a matter of what to see, but what to see first.
O-issue 2011: Campus art
With a brand-new arts center opening next year and a slew of museums and RSOs on campus, there’s much more art at the U of C than just that authentic Chagall hanging in your dorm.
Summer Breeze artist selected
The Major Activities Board (MAB) announced yesterday that Rebecca Black, whose YouTube sensation “Friday” recently took the the Internet by storm, will be headlining Summer Breeze.
Bardem shines a light into the gloom of Biutiful
Director Iñárritu and Javier Bardem succeed in showing us the beauty of everyday life.
Chicago Art
Remember John Hughes: Play hooky at the Art Institute
Rennaissance Society invites us to the space between
New exhibit showcases themes of vulnerability and memory in mixed media
Street art goes from the back alley to the box office
Banksy paints a muddled portrait of Mr. Brainwash
Newsom’s quirks charm Chicago
The singer and harpist brings her unique brand of folk to the Vic Theater
Searching for black identity beyond the Blue Door
One man grapples with race, culture, and his own past.
DEEP shows audiences how to become a hardened hipster
Gorilla Tango’s Musical DEEP is too heavy on the satire, too light on provoking thought
Play ‘em off, Rock Cats: Acro-Cats celebrate feline fancy
Chicago’s most talented cats perform acrobatic feats and rock out.