Matt Bolton of Lonely Planet magazine has written a four-page-long article on Chicago and its relationship with films, here on the BBC's travel site.

There's also a related photography feature called The Windy City on Film     I have a seventeen-year long intimate relationship with that city, punctuated with about eighteen visits to it, ( Read more... )

     Anish Kapoor's exhibit at the Royal Academy is open... and it features various dynamic pieces such as a giganic wad of red wax that moves on a platform and is currently being carved by the archways it gets shoved through.

The full story here.

This is worth mentioning because Kapoor is the artist responsible for Cloud Gate, for all ( Read more... )

     Because it's a city where a church - namely, St. Luke's Lutheran Church of Logan Square - decides that hiring local fire performers Pyrotechniq would be a good idea for Easter ongoings. And lets them play "Strobe's Nanafushi."

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     For proper Chicago view porn, though, one would have to turn to their official promotional video for 2009 ( ( Read more... )