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Gifting a book is personal. Here are some very specific messages to send this holiday season, coupled with exactly the right books.

The pickup-and-delivery-only restaurant Laos to Your House is the only restaurant in Chicago where you can try the cuisine of the Southeast Asian country. “We're really putting in a lot of time and a lot of effort into this, but it doesn't feel like work when you're passionate about it," says one of the owners.

BroadwayWorld, the leading theater news website in the United States, announced that local Glenview theater icon Oil Lamp Theater won a staggering 25 nominations spread over four productions for the 2022 BroadwayWorld Chicago Awards.

Sheri Flanders of the Chicago Reader wrote the review I hoped to write about “Wakanda Forever.”

In an August 2022 discussion on the New York Radio Message Board (NYRMB), an online gathering board for radio professionals and fans, a spirited debate took place over National Public Radio’s [...]

Tasked with the job of maintaining the Reader’s relevance in an ever-changing media landscape is Enrique Limón. He is the Reader’s new editor-in-chief and the first Latino to hold that position in the publication’s more than 50-year history.

Her use of what one critic called “a three-dimensional form that was neither painting nor sculpture” earned the kind of praise typically reserved in the 1960s for male art stars.

Failed City of Chicago inspections briefly shuttered many of South Ellis Avenue’s familiar food trucks.

The mayor said aldermen who claim to support police should vote in favor of her budget.

We look at the most awkward, uncomfortable, and downright unpleasant Thanksgivings portrayed on film. So tuck in your napkins, wait for Sis to say grace, and lets all dig in!