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Leo: You're in a phase of your cycle when you have maximum power to raise your appreciation of elegance.

Eat, drink and be merry has become a policy of mine since right about the time I stood in front of van der Weyden’s “Last Judgment.” A superficial response? Perhaps. But about tomorrow, who knows, many of us may begin doing time in a fire-fueled eternity. Just the thought of it makes me hungry.

The greatest cost of fear is the way it blots out everything it touches and drowns out the joys of parenthood.

A satire about precarity, family, memory and survival.

Look upon the face of a girl who intends to kill.

Nico turns fifty: what of the rest of her life?

Hollywood Boulevard's unspoken dreams.

Leo: It is a ripe time to formulate fresh intentions.

Poems about Partition and coming-of-age as a Pakistani Muslim in America after September 11, 2001.

There are few perfect films and fewer that are pure.

The local premiere of this Samuel D. Hunter play at Griffin Theatre Company gives audience to the private suffering of its postulants.

Love, mourning, hope and loss are the legacies of a war-torn land.

With seven companies whose specialties range from pointe to head spins, the "Dance For Life" program promises to be not only a worthy fundraiser, but one of the most eclectic dance concerts of the year.

Newcity's Alan Pocaro talks with Robin Dluzen on curating, studio practice, boxing and the perks of making art in the Midwest.

There's lots to do in August in Chicago besides perish from heat stroke...though that's always an option.

Dance moves outdoors for the summer, from Dance Downs in the Parks to performances on the MCA grounds.

The objective is for the team in possession of the ball to attack its opponent’s territory and score. In this way, netball, similar to games such as soccer and hockey, is what is known as an “invasion game.”

Our highlights for August.

Inhumanity with impunity: at the end of World War II, an abandoned Nazi uniform makes a man.

Exceptional courtroom tension from master Hirokazu Koreeda: He did it, but whydunit?

The filmmakers see the art, the hand that made the art, the joker, the trickster, the savant of beauty, sage of shock.

Black Harvest turns twenty-four; a Nazi uniform transforms an escapee; a seventy-foot shark takes on Jason Statham; Spike Lee laughs at the Klan; and "Crazy Rich Asians" promises wild humor.

Leo: It's a favorable time for you to fully claim the glory of being right here, right now.

Plan your August in Chicago with our design-related calendar of the Top 5 best things to do.

August's shows are not to miss.

A summer group show picks up the perennial conversation around the indexicality of a photograph with some surprising counterclaims.

This Thai painter's first American solo exhibition meditates on gestural abstraction as poetic movements.

Everybody loves ice cream.

Looking ahead to a few of Chicago's theater highlights for August.

The open-house of the McCormick House at the Elmhurst Art Museum.

I look forward to spending days and nights in Grant Park.

Returning to the Goodman Theatre a year after suffering a heart attack while on its stage, Stacy Keach consummates his performance of the tumultuous, iconic Ernest Hemingway in this affecting solo show.

Like the fields tilled by the victims of Holodomor, Abbey Fenbert’s new play at Red Theater Chicago needs air and space in order to properly grow.

Eclipse Theatre Company’s William Inge season continues with this 1955 play about getting lost in order to get found.

Leo: Gleefully acknowledge you've got a lot to learn.

An incitement to engage—taking action against fear and powerlessness.

How Jensen silver tableware and products for the home helped shape a global identity for Danish design and modern living at-large.

The annual tap festival is a chance to see the boundary-pushing work of CHRP's first ever artist-in-residence Dani Borak.