“I think there’s always a point in young-ish adulthood where it’s like: ‘Wait, wait, wait — we’re buying houses now? OK, cool. Having kids on purpose? Got it.’ It can be a little unsettling when you look at your own trajectory and it’s like, well, what am I doing? And if I’m not doing that, am...
"A Shayna Maidel" ✭✭✭✭ Barbara Lebow's 1980s play "A Shayna Maidel" is a much richer work than I ever realized, especially in director Vanessa Stalling's exquisitely acted production at TimeLine Theatre. On its face, this is a simple story of the reconciliation of a father and his two Jewish, Polish-born...
When “Shameless” returned for its ninth season last month, the character of Lip had noticeably shorter hair than in years past. That’s because actor Jeremy Allen White has been juggling some other roles along with his work on the Showtime series. He stars in the new indie relationship drama, “After...
It’s not like she ever truly went away, but the way Christina Aguilera sees it, she is finally back where she belongs. “It truly feels like coming home,” the mega-watt pop star said of returning to the stage for her first proper tour in more than a decade. When she called from New York one day...
Michael "The Situation" Sorrentino, whose abs became famous on the hit reality show "Jersey Shore," was sentenced Friday to eight months in prison for cheating on his taxes. A federal judge sentenced the star shortly after his brother, Marc Sorrentino, received a two-year sentence on a similar...
Ben Affleck says battling addiction is "a lifelong and difficult struggle." The actor posted on Instagram Thursday that he has completed a 40-day stay at a treatment center for alcohol addiction and remains in outpatient care. The 46-year-old says the support he's received from family and friends...
Kate Hudson says her baby girl is here. The "Almost Famous" actress announced Wednesday on her Instagram account that Rani (RAH-nee) Rose Hudson Fujikawa was born Tuesday. It's the third child but first girl for Hudson, and her first baby with musician boyfriend Danny Fujikawa. The photo she posted...
Actor John Stamos is a father. The 54-year-old announced on Instagram the birth of his son, Billy Stamos. Stamos says the child is named after the actor's father. Stamos says, "From now on, the best part of me will always be my wife and son." Stamos and 31-year-old Caitlin McHugh married in February....
Amy Schumer is a married Mrs.! The “Snatched” star confirmed Thursday that she and her chef-beau, Chris Fischer, tied the knot during a seaside ceremony. The announcement came in the form of wedding photos posted on Schumer’s Instagram, bearing the caption “Yup.” The images feature the comic and...
This weekend, Chicago will get a dose of international love as EXPO descends upon Navy Pier. Now in its seventh year, the international art fair invites galleries and collectors from around the world, creating a snow globe of contemporary media, heady aspirations and really good looks. Last year...
Rivers of eyeballs flowed across the Merchandise Mart on Saturday night. A giraffe projected against the central section of the great behemoth of a building stared out at the opening night crowd gathered across the Chicago River. Thickets of flowers sprouted, and spread, and resolved themselves...
Julia Stasch, president of Chicago’s John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation since 2014, will step down from her post next year, the philanthropy announced Tuesday. Stasch, 71, helped steer the foundation toward a philosophy of “big bets,” aiming larger sums of money at smaller numbers of...
In this corner, we have Navy Pier. Boasting a Ferris wheel, the Chicago Shakespeare Theater and a branch of Jimmy Buffett’s Margaritaville, the lakeside tourist mecca brings in more than 8 million visitors per year — of which 59 percent are white. In the other corner, we have Pilsen. Historically...
Oak Park likes to think of itself as a little bastion of diversity, a belief rooted both in its current demographics and in the town’s remarkable maneuvering to fight the “white flight” that was going on in neighborhoods all around it in the late 1960s. There’s truth behind that article of faith...