Home scary home: Find a haunted house
October's ghoulish housing market features a selection of dark, dreary and spooky-looking structures filled with unsavory characters who delight in scaring their guests half to death. Here's our guide to the frightening side of the Chicago area's real estate market.
Orpheus myth gets fresh take thanks to Ruhl Hedy Weiss: Like Tennessee Williams and Samuel Beckett, Chicago-bred playwright Sarah Ruhl understands that the theater is designed to thrive on language somewhat different from the sort we use in everyday conversation. Call that language poetry, or stylization, or something akin to music -- however you describe it, Ruhl has the ability to make her audiences listen to words (and begin to think about the world), in a fresh way. She knows how to make us dizzy with familiar words -- their power to deceive, disarm, seduce, startle, unsettle.
Friday, October 10, 2008
Oasis continues resurgence with 'Soul'
Most music fans probably remember Oasis for its mega-hit 1995 album, "(What's the Story?) Morning Glory" and its two singles, "Wonderwall" and "Champagne Supernova," and many critics will pan the band's newest release, "Dig Out Your Soul" as a comeback.
Thursday, October 9, 2008
Cool nights bring fall colors early
For most of us, warm, sunny days and cool nights sound just about right when fall rolls around. It turns out that's when the trees are suiting up for some of their best work. "Fall colors are coming out right now, and they're going to last until the first week of November," said Kathy Casstevens, marketing director for Starved Rock Lodge and Conference Center.
Wynton Marsalis and the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra will go down as the first musicians to perform on the stage at North Central College's Wentz Concert Hall.
Luis Bravo's Forever Tango is the internationally celebrated entertainment event that has played to great acclaim in Europe, Canada and the United States, where it most recently enjoyed its third run on Broadway.
'Spooky Science Saturday' on Oct. 25 at NIU lab
DEKALB -- Every Halloween season, hundreds of young people flock to Northern Illinois University for the annual Haunted Physics Laboratory. This year's event promises to be bigger and spookier than ever - and it might just make your hair stand on end, quite literally.
Wednesday, October 8, 2008
Hearty Italian fare made Mama's way at Capri
Joey Rovito's Capri Ristorante Italiano in Naperville took up new quarters when it was moved recently from Ogden Avenue to the new City Gate Center on the city's northwest side.
Hollywood's undead: They're just like us!
The dead used to be a world away, far beyond the realm of mortal existence. But the coffins and long black capes are gone— these days, the dead are just like us. Hollywood's dead, circa 2008, wear jeans, type obsessively on their BlackBerries and fret over relationship woes.
Tuesday, October 7, 2008
Italian fare made Mamato
Some families are bound together by blood. The Rovito clan is no different, but its members also connect along a chain composed of semolina and olive oil, marinara sauce and mozzarella.
AURORA -- The planetarium at Waubonsie Valley High School is open to the public during three upcoming Family Nights and offers information about a celestial event happening this Halloween.
A-maze your friends at this twisted puzzle
A Corn Maze and activity area at Meadowlands Farm is open rain or shine during the Scarecrow Fest in Newark this weekend (9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Saturday and 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Sunday and on October weekends for the rest of the month). A one-time admission charge to all the activities, including the maze, is $4 (children age 2 and younger are free). Activities include hay pyramid, corn box, bean bag toss, pumpkin bowling, corn shelling and grinding, pumpkin slingshot, broom toss, turkey in the straw, and wagon rides until dusk. A flashlight is required for after-dark walks in the corn maze.
Fall Moon Fest promotes unity via arts
A showcase of traditional and modern Chinese performing arts and culture of the Chinese people will take place Saturday in Naperville. The Dong Fang Chinese Performing Arts Association will present its annual Golden Fall Moon Festival performance at 7:30 p.m. Saturday in Pfeiffer Hall at North Central College, 310 E. Benton Ave.
Paddlers' delight
AURORA -- Despite construction delays that forced it to be rerouted and rescheduled, the storied Mid-American Canoe and Kayak Race will still be rolling on the river.
In its 25th year, Ballet Folklorico Quetzalcoatl, the nationally-recognized dance troupe from Aurora, is dedicated to instilling pride and cultural awareness in Hispanic youth while preserving the cultural music and dance of the Mexican people. In addition, the dance ensemble introduces other people to Mexico's rich heritage. Ballet Folklorico Quetzalcoatl will perform on Saturday, Sept. 27, at the Paramount Theatre.
Here's your assignment...
Hopefully the start of the school year has gotten you used to homework, because our fall movie preview comes with a few assignments.
