Celebrating its fifth year, the DocLands Documentary Film Festival has been working to build an active, involved, and fully supportive community around documentary film since its launch in 2017. In a year where Covid-19 could have easily thrown a wrench into the works, we applaud festival director Joni Cooper for pulling off this event despite […]
Women have long been instrumental to the Bay Area’s green spaces. There was Caroline Sealy Livermore and Sepha Evers, the women behind the Marin Conservation League, who were responsible for saving Angel Island in the 1930s. In the 1970s, Amy Meyer fought for the Golden Gate National Recreation Area, which today includes many of Marin’s wild areas, and most […]
A physical manifestation of the digital world has landed in downtown Chicago. New-media artist Adrian Stein recently unveiled what he describes as the world’s first immersive non-fungible token (NFT) art experience, “Quantum Mirror.” “Quantum Mirror” is a 300-square-foot room covered with over 150 mirrored surfaces from floor to ceiling. Visitors step onto a mirrored floor […]
Spring is in the air, baseball is back (with fans!), and the expanded Covid-19 vaccine rollout has us hopeful for brighter days ahead. Here are the best virtual and in-person things to do this April around Chicago and the suburbs. Don’t forget to tag us in your posts on Instagram @betterchicago! All Month Major League Baseball […]
Make It Better Media Group invites you to a virtual event in partnership with College Cash Solutions, aimed at middle and high-income earners who want to learn how to substantially reduce their out-of-pocket college costs. Tuesday, April 6th, 2021, 11:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m. PT Click here to register. In this 60-minute live virtual event we […]
Missing film lately? Probably not, seeing as how we have all spent the last 10 months playing armchair critic thanks to safer-at-home orders and HBO Max, Netflix and Hulu+ subscriptions. Since the outbreak of the pandemic, we’ve devoured everything from tabloid docu-series The Tiger King to estrogen-fueled comic book blockbuster WW84 (and dissected them all […]
Throughout Women’s History Month, WTTW is honoring women change makers and trailblazers with programming that spotlights the achievements of women. From movies and documentaries, to television series and music, the schedule features stories of contemporary women working to reshape society, profiles of artistic women including musicians and authors, and more. Here’s the must-see programming you […]
For most kids, the future is a blank canvas. All blue skies, with the most pressing questions of life being, “who am I inviting to my birthday?” and, “what do I want to be when I grow up?” In recent years, the answer to the latter of those has changed from “astronaut,” to “YouTube star,” […]
There are places that happen to you and places you choose. For photographer Dorothea Lange, California was both. She was 23 years old when she left her native New Jersey and arrived in San Francisco. The year was 1918 and she thought she was just passing through — instead, she stayed for the rest of her […]
Step out of your comfort zone with these new restaurants and small businesses in the Bay area.
