RECOMMENDED Where: Broken Nose Theatre at The Den Theatre (2A), 1331 N. Milwaukee Ave. When: through March 2 Tickets: Pay what you can Contact: www.brokennosetheatre.com By ANNE SPISELMAN Theater Critic Stephen Spotswood’s “Girl in the Red Corner” tackles the familiar theme of self-actualization through sports but gives it an atypical twist by putting women in […]
What: “Anna Karenina” Where: The Auditorium Theater When: Through Feb. 24 Tickets: 312-386-8905 By M.L. RANTALA Staff Critic There was a huge crowd on hand Wednesday night at the Auditorium Theater for the world premiere of a stunning new work presented by the Joffrey Ballet. “Anna Karenina,” choreographed by Yuri Possokhov, is a distillation of […]
The University of Chicago Police Department (UCPD) reported the following incidents between Feb. 11 and Feb. 18. Herald Staff Report On Tuesday, Feb. 12, at 8:40 p.m., a plastic owl was snatched from the hand of a person walking at 5640 S. University Ave., in an ongoing fraternity dispute. The owl was subsequently returned, and […]
To the Editor: Recent letters to the Herald have emphasized misleading claims that the Obama Presidential Center will subtract public parkland from Jackson Park for private use. But the OPC utilization of the Jackson Park site is a public use, just as all of the other museums in the park are. The OPC will be […]
To the Editor: I voted early. I voted for Leslie Hairston. It was my honor and my pleasure. I’m grateful she represents the 5th Ward in the Chicago City Council and in the community. She brings a valuable combination of sense, sensibility and unquestioned integrity to both her role as a member of the Council […]
To the Editor: For six years, I’ve had the privilege of representing the 26th District in the Illinois House of Representatives. You trusted me to fight for you in Springfield, and I’ve done my best to honor that trust. Serving you has been the privilege of my life, and I’m grateful for your faith in […]
To the Editor: As a friend on the North side commented, only in the Hyde Park Herald (or at least in the city) would you see the words “copse” and “Linnaeus” in the same sentence. See the caption (“A City of Chicago police officer searches the copse near the Linnaeus statue on the Midway shortly […]
By Marc Meltzer Contributing Writer Drawing lovers of folk music from across the city, the 59th annual University of Chicago Folk Festival featured old time, bluegrass, Cajun and other genres Friday and Saturday. “We have some community members who helped organize the first folk festival who are still involved and they see this as something […]
By AARON GETTINGER Staff Writer Federal Federal Judge John Robert Blakey ruled that the plaintiffs in Protect Our Parks v. Chicago Park District have standing, under the public trust doctrine, to sue to block the construction of the Obama Presidential Center in Jackson Park, but he rejected plaintiffs’ standing in two other areas. The defendants […]
By AARON GETTINGER Staff Writer The Hyde Park Union Church has installed the Rev. Veronica Johnson and Sarah Lusche as co-pastors, culminating a six-month search for new leadership at the church affiliated with both the American Baptist Churches and the United Church of Christ. Congregations in both denominations exercise a considerable amount of independence, including […]