Author: Beth Silverman

Greektown bakery serving up last minute treats for Valentine’s Day procrastinators

FOX TV: Greektown gem, Artopolis Bakery and Café, offering a plethora of sweet treats, groceries and gifts to save procrastinators for Valentine's Day. General manager Sotirios Fitros joined Good Day Chicago to talk about some of the bakery’s best sellers and shares his recommendations for romantic hotspots around the neighborhood. See it HERE

The Factotum: This Soul Opera Blends Hip Hop, Gospel and R&B to Tell a Story of Black Love

NBC TV: This segment features The Factotum, Lyric Opera’s world premiere soul opera that blends hip-hop, gospel and R&B to tell a story of Black love. Chicago Today hosts, Cortney Hall and Matthew Rodrigues, chat with co-creator DJ King Rico to hear about this brand-new blend of sounds in a production that is shaking up [...]

Chicago Philharmonic provides perfect meet cute for musical Evanston couple

Chicago Tribune: A mutual love of the music of Gustav Mahler is only one of the things that drew mezzo-soprano Susan Platts and French horn player Neil Kimel together. Read about their accidental cute meet in the Chicago Tribune HERE

All’s Fodder for fun in Trockadrero Ballet

Chicago Sun-Times: Experts at combining the elegance and technicality of classical ballet with comedic timing, the all-male ballet troupe Les Ballets Trockadero De Monte Carlo has their audience leaving entertained and feeling good. Hosted by the Auditorium, audiences hope the Trocks leap back to Chicago soon!

Donnelley Foundation grants help to share underrepresented stories

Chicago Tribune: In connection with MLK Day, this article features an interview with Dr. Brad Braxton of the Chicago Theological Seminary, whose oral history project funded by The Foundation traces the legacy of Dr. Rev Jesse Jackson and his work Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. It also announces Gaylord and Dorothy Donnelley Foundation’s 2023 Broadening [...]

Cabinet of Curiosity’s Latest Spectacle Considers Pluses and Minuses of Earth and Outer Space

WTTW: Storefront theatre company, Cabinet of Curiosity's latest spectacle is out of this world! WTTW's Hedy Weiss writes about their production which was inspired by the absurd low budget science-fiction films from the 1950s and cartoons of the 60s. Journey for the Sun protagonists must prevent the earth’s overheating and destruction, encountering Little Green Men, [...]

Rossini’s comic ‘Le Comte Ory’ a triumph at Lyric Opera of Chicago

Chicago Sun-Times: After Lyric Opera of Chicago’s opening last week of its first-ever production of the 1886 five-act version of “Don Carlos,” with its intense dose of forced marriage, armed rebellion and religious oppression, the company unveiled a perfect, light-hearted contrast Sunday afternoon. Read Sun-Time's review HERE

3Arts Awards marks 15 years with nearly $500,000 in grants to women, artists of color and artists with disabilities

Chicago Tribune: Peregrine Bermas was having a not-so-stellar day before the call about being awarded a $30,000 grant from 3Arts, a nonprofit grant-making organization that has distributed $5.8 million in funds since 2007 to more than 1,800 artists — the majority of whom were women, people of color and artists with disabilities — came through. [...]

Chicago High School for the Arts featured on Fox TV

Fox TV: Chicago High School for the Arts (ChiArts) is Chicago’s first and only public high school offering pre-professional arts training. ChiArts seeks to remove tuition and other barriers that exist for Chicago’s youth and create a space for them to develop their talent, hone their skills, and thrive as creators, thinkers, and community members. [...]