The listed events were chosen by the editors of Chicagoist and brought to you by the 2009 Toyota Corolla. Film Have you heard the new place to play hooky is the Portage Theater's classic Wednesday matinée series? Last week it was the Marx Brothers at their most anarchic. This week Nelson Eddy and Jeanette MacDonald star in "I Married an Angel." This classic 1942 fantasy features some classic Rogers and Hart songs sung beautifully......

From a public relations standpoint this has not been a banner couple weeks for the Chicago Police Department. First, the Reverend Al Sharpton opens a Chicago office for his National Action Network in order to address the issue of police brutality in Chicago. Days after Sharpton opened his office, 42-year-old Gefery Johnson died from injuries sustained after police Tasered and forcibly arrested him. Days after that, 18-year-old Aaron Harrison was shot to death by police......

The words "Chinese" and "takeout" seem to fit together like a hand in glove. Like Mexican and Italian food, your Chinese options in the city spread across a wide array of options. Yang Restaurant is a relatively new alternative in the South Loop. Located next door to Bongo Room's (formerly Room 12) Roosevelt Road location, Yang has been giving South Loop residents their Kung Po fix for close to three years now. One look at......

These are days of rage for Tribune architecture critics and their readers. Today, Blair Kamen and Patrick T. Reardon released their list of candidates for Ugliest Building in Chicagoland (Outside the Loop) and have asked readers to vote for the region’s all-out fugliest. They admit the list is unscientific and there’s much more bad design to go around. Thanks to masses of commuters, the rickety Roosevelt Road Metra station seemed destined to be the reader......

Chicago is a city full of iconic imagery. From its skyline and architecture, to its beaches and boulevards, to its trains and neighborhoods, take one look at any of those and you know that you're looking at home. The Maxwell Street Market once deserved to be listed among all those other landmarks. These days, Maxwell Street itself is unrecognizable. All traces of its open market glory were buried long ago by urban planning and the......

This week the Park District is expected to approve the installation of 100 cast-iron human figures in Grant Park. The headless figures, which are about 9 foot tall each, are the work of Magdalena Abakanowicz, modern Poland's most famous graphic artist. In 2006, they'll be assembled in a "forest-like display" in the southern portion of Grant Park near Michigan Ave & Roosevelt Road. And the coolest part is that you'll be able to walk......

Tomorrow night is Chicago's 47th Annual Venetian Night, the annual lakefront event that features a parade of decorated boats the sail along Lake Michigan. This year 35 boats are expected to participate and the theme is "Broadway on the Lake" so expect a lot of show tunes. The event kicks off with a free concert, "Classics of the Silver Screen," by the Grant Park Orchestra at the Pritzker Pavilion. The boat parade begins at about......