“Meiji Modern: Fifty Years of New Japan” is a building-wide exhibition and much of it shows a fusion of old and new, traditional and modern, Japanese and foreign.
Know that phrase "the numbers don't lie"? It's a lie. The numbers lie constantly. With the movies, as with every creative medium in which visionaries must cross the six-way intersection of greed, exploitation, risk, reward, art and commerce, it's a...
The Blackhawks, Bulls and White Sox have partnered with Standard Media Group to form a new regional sports network with plans to begin broadcasting games in October.
Among Chicago's demolished architectural treasures are the Stock Exchange Building, Dearborn Station Trainshed and Granada Theater, "one of the largest and most ornate movie palaces ever built."
As the story of a corrupt attorney, this is just the kind of smart satire that theater-goers are looking for right now. Just be careful how hard you laugh.