Dear readers, not to alarm you, but our precious days of summertime Chicago are slyly approaching their end. When the twinge of fall air sweeps across the city, that can only mean that the roll-out of autumnal activities is soon to follow. But lovers of summer needn’t worry — as we straddle both this season […]
Break up your everyday routine with a dose of summer merriment this August. With a number of inaugural events and others that support local organizations, it’s never too late to start new traditions that benefit you and the community. Whether it takes you to the suburbs or the heart of the city, you are sure […]
Celebrate Juneteenth amongst festivals like Novato festival feature events from art, music and so much more.
Now that the gears of summer are finally in motion, the Chicagoland area is brimming with possibilities! This month we celebrate Pride Month, Juneteenth and Father’s Day — and we’ve got festivities surrounding all of those events and more covered in our round-up of the best things to do in Chicago and the North Shore […]
Asian American and Pacific Islander (AAPI) Heritage Month is dedicated to the accomplishments and histories of these minority groups in America, which started as Asian/Pacific American Heritage Week in 1978, signed into effect by President Jimmy Carter. May commemorates the immigration of the first Japanese people to the United States in 1843 on May 7, […]
Asian American and Pacific Islander (AAPI) Heritage Month is an annual month dedicated to the accomplishments and histories of these minority groups in America. AAPI Heritage Month started as Asian/Pacific American Heritage Week in 1978, signed into effect by President Jimmy Carter. May commemorates the immigration of the first Japanese people to the United States […]
Featured: Mill Valley Music Festival May 7 Bring a lawn chair, a hat and a refillable water bottle to the field behind the Mill Valley Community Center and celebrate the return of live music in a festival format, outdoors in Marin. Hosted by the Mill Valley Chamber of Commerce (with Noise Pop Industries) an inaugural, […]
A Marin dad drops a restaurant in San Francisco’s Cow Hollow neighborhood; Starbird Chicken comes to Corte Madera, a design showcase opens in Fairfax, among other newness in the Bay Area Featured: Little Saint Chef Kyle and Katina Connaughton and the team behind three-Michelin star Single Thread in Healdsburg are opening a plant-centric venture in […]
Plus, the San Francisco Film Festival opens and a tomato market at Bon Air Center. Featured: ODC’s Dance Downtown Mar 31–Apr 10 Packing five decades of choreographic adventure and exuberant dance into two weekends of programming hardly seems enough for San Francisco’s seminal dance troupe. Founded by artistic director Brenda Way at Oberlin College in […]
April in Chicago – when the first legitimately nice days start stacking up, and we can all gingerly put our snow boots in the closet (albeit at the front). We don’t know about you, but nothing makes us want to go out and do All The Things more than a beautiful spring day and a […]
