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Patrick’s Day traditions. From dyeing the Chicago River green (yes, you read that correctly) to sponsoring multiple parades (like the official downtown route, as well as the long-running South Side Irish Parade and Northwest Side Irish Parade) and to hosting an Irish film festival and more,...
May 3, 2023 – 2:49 pm Review:All that was lacking was the Guinness and step-dancers to turn the Chicago Symphony Orchestra’s special concert with cellist Yo-Ya Ma into what the Irish call a hooley. it was a party, for sure, the May 1 event benefiting the musicians’ pension fund,...
A 1920s English seaside town bears witness to a farcical and occasionally sinister scandal in this riotous mystery comedy. Based on a stranger than fiction true story,Wicked Little Lettersfollows two neighbours: deeply conservative local Edith Swan (Olivia Colman) and rowdy Irish migrant Rose Gooding...
Chicago – In the latest HollywoodChicago.com Hookup: Film, we have 50 pairs of advance-screening movie passes up for grabs to the Sundance Film Festival and Telluride Film Festival hit “Viva”! Shot entirely in Havana, the film was directed by an Irish director and was Ireland’s official...
who turns out to have been a fairly well-known practitioner. I remember her relating his reaction to her earlier childbearing history. My Norwegian father and Irish mother managed to have what you might call Norwegian-Irish quadruplets; four boys who arrived in less than four years — April ...
That said, at the risk of bringing up horrid, archaic female stereotypes about women only caring about car color... I have always wanted a bright blue car and never driven anything in a color I remotely liked in the 30 years I've had a license.We actually are in the market right now...
delightful surprise after another. The party was packed on the 2ndlevel with balloons and festive décor everywhere you looked. Irish dancers thrilled the crowd along with the legendaryShannon Rovers(who seemingly appeared in every single restaurant and bar across Chicago!). There were so many famil...
Irish playwright and author Samuel Beckett may be best known for his absurdist exploration of the human condition—his short play “Not I” consists of a black stage where only an actress’ frantically speaking mouth is visible—but he was also a bloke who loved cricket. Beckett was a strong...