Gwen Ihnat

Nov 23, 2024 | ew.com | Gwen Ihnat |Kevin Jacobsen

Still, we've found a selection of Thanksgiving movies (or, at least, Thanksgiving-adjacent movies) worth gobbling up along with your turkey and sides. Thanksgiving movies are few and far between compared to the holidays it's sandwiched between: Halloween and Christmas. Perhaps it's because dinner with extended family invites stress more than trick-or-treating or opening presents under the tree.

Nov 14, 2024 | blockclubchicago.org | Gwen Ihnat

LINCOLN PARK — Hubbard Street Dance Chicago kicks off its already-sold-out 47th season on Friday with a retrospective of “Sweet Gwen Suite” by Bob Fosse and Gwen Verdon, making Hubbard Street the world’s only dance company with a Bob Fosse work in its current repertoire. The Hubbard Street Fall Series also features “return to patience” and “Busk” by Resident Artist Aszure Barton, Kyle Abraham’s “Show Pony” and “Prelude to a Kiss” by Lar Lubovitch. The performances run Friday through Nov.

Oct 30, 2024 | blockclubchicago.org | Gwen Ihnat

RAVENSWOOD MANOR — The end-of-year holidays may still rule the roost in the holiday world, but Halloween is a definite up-and-comer. According to the National Retail Foundation, more than half of all Americans planned on decorating this Halloween season. And if you walk down residential streets in Chicago’s neighborhoods, you can spy various pumpkins, tombstones and skeletons augmented by orange and purple lights and filmy webs on porches, in windows and strewn across yards.

Oct 29, 2024 | blockclubchicago.org | Gwen Ihnat |Quinn Myers

WICKER PARK — Bobbi Brown is taking her show on the road. She will be in town Wednesday and is scheduled to make an appearance at her Jones Road store in Wicker Park. The legendary makeup artist, who currently lives in Montclair, N.J., opened a Chicago store for her Jones Road brand in April at 1655 N. Damen Ave., on the Wicker Park-Bucktown border. It was the first Midwest location for Jones Road, which Brown created as an independent brand after her contract with Estée Lauder expired.

Oct 29, 2024 | blockclubchicago.org | Gwen Ihnat

CITYWIDE — Every year, understandably confused Chicago parents flood their neighborhood Facebook pages with the age-old question: When does trick-or-treating start? Compounding the confusion are the Halloween weekend events held in a lot of areas, such as pumpkin carving in the parks or trick-or-treating along business corridors. But those are only auxiliary to the main trick-or-treating event.