Chicago Lifestyle Podcast & Video Blog
Bill Wilson is an alcoholic who realized the help he needed could only come from someone who understood first hand what he was experiencing. After meeting a fellow sufferer of alcoholic addiction, the two realize this process could help others. As a result Bill and …
Dr. Aileen Dillane of the University of Limerick presents excerpts from her thesis in which she makes the case that the city of Chicago itself is imprinted in the work of Cheif Francis O’Neill who is credited with saving Irish Folk Music through his preservation efforts in the early 20th Century.
Can you shake loose the pain of the past and reclaim your legacy? Shortly after the end of the Civil War two former slaves ruminate on their experiences living and working within Monticello, the estate of former President Thomas Jefferson. In doing so they find themselves reunited in spirit with family and friends who lived and died along-side them in bondage providing what little love and support they were able to find in a cruel and oppressive system.
“The Reclamation of Madison Hemings” directed by Chuck Smith is onstage at the American Blues Theater through March 24, 2024.
This theater review by Reno Lovison includes impressions of the ABT’s new home and a recommendations for dining in the area.
This Madkap Production of “A Chorus Line” at the Skokie Theater, directed by Wayne Mell is on pointe, tapping into the essence of a story of love and dedication to the art of dance. “A Chorus Line” is an anthology of songs and monologues bringing …
Pippin was co-written and originally directed and choreographed by Chicago native Bob Fosse in 1972 who was at the very epicenter of his highly successful and frenetic career and possibly the pinnacle of his drug addiction that at least partly explains this bizarre tale of …
An entertaining Asian-American rockabilly musical at the Lookingglass Theatre, Lucy and Charlie’s Honeymoon by Matthew C. Yee is a light romp with a dark twist followed by a hasty, muddled ending wrapped up in a cloud of very good music all of which is performed by a remarkable cast of actor musicians.
There’s a lot to like about Lucy and Charlie’s Honeymoon but also a few things that troubled me. Listen to the entire podcast review to hear the details.
This adventure revolves around Asian identity, Asian stereotypes and the experience of being Asian in America. The following characters are all presented in the production as Asian or Asian-American: Charlie (Matthew C. Yee) and Lucy (Aurora Adachi-Winter), Grandma (Wai Ching Ho), Peter (Rammel Chan), Jeff (Daniel Lee Smith) and Bao (Harmony Zhang).
Characters presented as non-Asian are senior security professional agent Feinberg (Mary Williamson), and the bad guys Gabriel (Matt Bittner) and Martin (Doug Pawlik).
For a professional theater experience in Chicago you can’t do much better than the Lyric opera production of West Side Story. This Leonard Bernstein / Stephen Sondheim musical deemed cutting edge and somewhat avantgarde when first introduced is now a classic. West Side Story leans …
Sighted and visually impaired members of the Chicago Uptown Lions Club enjoyed a special tour of the new state-of-the-art Pepper Family Wildlife Center recently opened to replace the old Lincoln Park Zoo Lion House. Fans of the old Lion House originally built in 1912 will …
This is a very interesting and well done documentary produced by the Jewish Neighborhood Development Council about the West Ridge / West Rogers Park neighborhood that includes a fair amount of history as well as current activity driving the popularity of this neighborhood particularly among the Jewish Community.
Whether you are a past, current, or potential future resident you will no doubt enjoy learning about this vibrant far northside Chicago Community bounded roughly by Ridge on the east, Peterson on the South, Kedzie to the West and North to Howard.
Though this video centers on the Jewish influence as the area is home to the Midwest’s largest Hasidic community, West Ridge is also represented by a significant number of individuals who celebrate the Indo/Pak, Bangladeshi cultural traditions of South Asia as well as longtime Irish American and German-American residents plus Assyrian, Russian, and Korean immigrant communities.
Here is a video we produced of the India Independence Day Parade on Devon in 2017.
This podcast episode can be described as a day in the life of a Jeopardy! champion. As a huge fan of the popular game show I was very excited to talk with seven time winner Brian Chang about the behind the scenes action from a …
My wife Julie and I were on hand Friday, January 27th, 2023 at Lighthouse ArtSpace to celebrate the 267th birthday of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, which included a sneak peek kickoff of their newest experiential exhibit – – Mozart Immersive: The Soul of a Genius. Before …
It’s a shame that too often these days, individuals resort to firearms to settle disputes. Certainly no one wants to be assaulted physically under any circumstances but people seems to turn to the use of deadly force quickly and easily and with little thought or care for the sanctity of life.
Reports of deadly violence permeates our nightly news. Sadly even now it’s found its way into our own news platform which has been dedicated primarily to lifestyle reporting. But sometimes news finds you and we can’t turn a blind eye as violence and the threat of violence creeps closer and closer to home.
*Update to this story. The victim was reported to be a 33 year-old male with a non life threatening wound to his leg.
** Listen to the full podcast story above. Thanks to Steve Solomon for the use of Foster Avenue Beach as our theme song.
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