Pretty much every Blind Boys of Alabama gig feels like Christmas, so their holiday show at City Winery should pretty much tear the joint down.

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Equal parts imaginative holiday magic, Dickensian gothic style, and honest-to-goodness humanity.

Joseph G. Peterson masterfully weaves the restless meanderings of the mind of a solitary traveler yearning for connection and home and validation for his life choices with the shabbiness and inescapable yet temporary community of an airport setting.

"White Noise" and "Emancipation" open, and "Top Gun Maverick" returns. Plus: "Brainwashed: Sex-Camera-Power," "Jonas Mekas 100!, "A Couple," "Tetsuo The Iron Man," Violent Night," and "Parasite."

Actors John Kani and Winston Ntshona were inspiration for the two prisoners serving decade-long sentences, arrested for performing radical works to interracial audiences during Apartheid.

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Exhibitions, events and a new design store in and around Chicago.

Yo, ho, ho! It’s that time of year when unbridled eating, drinking and general merrymaking become the order of the day. So go forth, enjoy life while you can, and happy holidays

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Dance reaches new audiences, and sometimes new heights, during the holidays.

If you've had enough holiday theater already, here are five shows that are not about Christmas.

You've waited all year for movies like these: From a Cindy Sherman portrait to the new Avatar.

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SAGITTARIUS: learn to hunt, stalk, claim, own and defend

Lookingglass Theatre’s “The Steadfast Tin Soldier,” which first opened to glowing reviews in 2018, has become a Chicago holiday theater tradition, along with “The Christmas Carol” at the Goodman and Joffrey Ballet’s “The Nutcracker.”

While you're supporting independent bookstores with all of your holiday shopping, take an hour or two to give your brain a gift with one of December's thought-provoking events.

Five powerhouse shows to round out a banner year for Chicago music.

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We started drinking Chardonnay—mostly California Chardonnay—in the eighties, and slowly, what we loved about the wine became what we loathed about the wine: it was big, oaky, and buttery. The Chardonnay that turned us around was the Catena Alta Chardonnay.