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Cam Gillette fist-bumps a crowd member during the "Welcome to the Show" variety show at The Getaway in Chicago on April 7, 2025. (Addison Annis/for the Chicago Tribune)

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Cam Gillette fist-bumps a crowd member during the "Welcome to the Show" variety show at The Getaway in Chicago on April 7, 2025. (Addison Annis/for the Chicago Tribune)

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‘Welcome to the Show’ wants to feel like hanging out with friends in their Lincoln Square basement

Derek Bish's free live talk show has been filling the backroom of The Getaway since its first episode in the summer of 2024.

Musician Jeff Tweedy on Oct. 1, 2020, in Chicago.

What to do in Chicago: Jeff Tweedy in concert, Mike Epps comedy tour and skating at Thalia Hall

Also around the area this weekend, the Henhouse Prowlers celebrate an album release at Old...

Astrology and horoscopes concept. Astrological zodiac signs in circle on starry background.

Daily Horoscope for April 18, 2025

Fresh starts bring even fresher motivation. Ambitious Mars leaps into bold Leo at 12:00 am...

Arts

Planning and design experts walk by the Greenstone Church while touring historic Pullman on Thursday, April 16, 2015 before a series of public meetings about establishing Pullman National HIstoric Park. (Brian Cassella/Chicago Tribune)

Pullman community steps on the gas to reopen historic Greenstone Church

Neighbors have raised $20,000 to reopen Greenstone Church in Pullman, which has been shuttered for years because of unpaid bills.

Books

Author Joe Dunthorne attends the film premiere of his novel "Submarine" in London on March 15, 2011. (Fergus McDonald/Getty Images)

Biblioracle: Joe Dunthorne explores his family’s history in ‘Children of Radium’

Joe Dunthorne unravels the story of his great-grandfather Siegfried Merzbacher, a German Jewish chemist who left behind a 2,000-page memoir.

Movies

A moment, captured sometime in the early 1970s in the Los Angeles neighborhood of Watts, from "Killer of Sheep." (Milestone Films)

Review: ‘Killer of Sheep,’ a poetic-realist masterwork, returns sharper than ever

Charles Burnett's gently astonishing movie tells the stories of the people he knew in his Los Angeles neighborhood of Watts in the 1970s. It's at the Gene Siskel Film Center for a weeklong run.

TV and Streaming

ESPN "College GameDay" host Lee Corso, center, with cohosts Chris Fowler, left, and Kirk Herbstreit, predicts an Oregon win over Washington on Oct. 12, 2013, in Seattle. (AP Photo/Ted S. Warren)

Lee Corso, 89, is retiring from ESPN’s ‘College GameDay’ — after 1 more appearance in Week 1

Lee Corso, the folksy former coach known for his elaborate headgear picks, is set to retire after a career with ESPN's "College GameDay" that began in 1987,

Theater

North Shore Center for Performing Arts in Skokie, home of Northlight Theatre. (GERALD WEST / CHICAGO TRIBUNE)

Northlight Theatre looks locally for its final season in Skokie

The four-play slate for 2026-26 opens next fall with the world premiere of "The First Lady of Television."

Music and Concerts

Jazz bassist Matt Ulery poses for a portrait at Hungry Brain on April 10, 2025. Ulery has a month-long residency at Hungry Brain. (Chris Sweda/Chicago Tribune)

Jazz bassist Matt Ulery returns to his roots with ‘Mother Harp’ and a release concert at Hungry Brain

Since moving to Chicago 25 years ago, Rockford-born bassist Matt Ulery has put out 15 albums of originals. His next is "Mother Harp."

Home and Garden

Consider buying materials, such as mulch, in bulk for larger areas to save money. (RJ Carlson/Chicago Botanic Garden)

Calculate your garden needs for savvy shopping

The garden buying season is about to begin in earnest, and with a few calculations in mind, it’ll be easy for you to purchase the right amounts.

Fashion

Notre Dame coach Niele Ivey applauds in the final moments of a game against North Carolina State in Raleigh, N.C., on Feb. 23, 2025. (AP Photo/Ben McKeown)

These NCAA Tournament styles stand out in a sea of coaches in team polo shirts and quarter-zip pullovers

The styles of Notre Dame's Niele Ivey, LSU’s Kim Mulkey, Alabama’s Nate Oaks and South Carolina’s Dawn Staley stand out in a sea of coaches in team polo shirts and quarter-zip pullovers.

Museums

Rev. Marshall Hatch, Sr. looks through the Hatch Family Apartment exhibit for the first time at the National Public Housing Museum, whose new brick-and-mortar ___location opens to the public April 4, and features the last remaining structure at the former Jane Addams Homes on March 27, 2025. The museum made a replica of his family’s apartment from the sixties. “This is surreal,” Hatch said. “It’s an incredible honor.” (Audrey Richardson/Chicago Tribune)

National Public Housing Museum opens in Chicago, the first of its kind, with residents’ stories at its heart

Free to visit and located in the last surviving building of the former Jane Addams Homes, the new Chicago museum is filled with the stuff of real residents' lives.

Restaurants, Food and Drink

Martin Sorge cuts a slice of his egg-free yellow cake with chocolate frosting. (Antonio Perez/Chicago Tribune)

Recipe: With the high price of eggs, this yellow birthday cake recipe goes egg-free

With the high price of eggs, this plant-based birthday cake with chocolate buttercream recipe goes egg free.

As much as I love a double-digit-step recipe with more ingredients than I can count on my two hands (looking at you, Beef Wellington), that’s not realistic for every night (let alone weekly!). Sometimes you just need a simple recipe...

Travel

A worker tests one of the cars' distinctive scissor doors at the Lamborghini factory in Sant'Agata Bolognese, Italy, in February 2025. The cars vary in color from matte black to mac-and-cheese orange to highlighter yellow and look like spaceships. (Federico Borella/The New York Times)

Vroom! Touring Italy’s supercar factories allows you to admire, and even drive, Maseratis, Lamborghinis, Ferraris

Italy’s “Motor Valley” is within an hour’s drive of Bologna, making it possible to construct a weekend-long crash course in supercars.

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