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Today In Culture, Wednesday, December 17, 2025: Theaster Gates’ Obama Center Frieze | Quimby’s Ink Launches | Beat Kitchen Owner Suing City

Subscribe to Newcity Today here. Theaster Gates’ “Monumental” Ode To Black Beauty Coming To Obama Center “When the Obama ...
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Today In Culture, Tuesday, December 16, 2025: Pope Leo Awards Riccardo Muti | The Martha Graham Centennial | The Chicago Origins Of “Heat”

Eater takes the measure of the year in notable dining trends seen throughout 2025: the steakhouse revival, the return of ...
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Today In Culture, Monday, December 15, 2025: The Newberry Awards Jonathan Franzen | Steep Theatre’s New Home | Stanley Tigerman’s Arby’s

A long-gone location on Chicago near Michigan was “an Arby’s restaurant disguised as a mini-Centre Pompidou in which to ...
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Today In Culture, Friday, December 19, 2025: Kelly O’Sullivan and Alex Thompson’s Berlin Premiere | Yuval Sharon Leaving Detroit Opera | Chicago Influencers Scandal

At Puck, Marion Maneker profiles the head of Freeman’s, which merged with Chicago auction house Hindman Auctioneers in early 2024. “Freeman’s, the ambitious Midwest auction house, is conquering the ...
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Today In Culture, Thursday, December 18, 2025: The Whimsy of Bruce Goff | The Steakhouse Moment | Poetry Foundation Cutbacks

The Auditorium and The Chicago Philharmonic continue the “Auditorium Philms Concert Series” with “Rocky” in concert for the fiftieth anniversary of Sylvester Stallone’s Oscar-winning breakthrough. The ...
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Free Will Astrology: Week of December 18, 2025

ARIES (March 21-April 19): Nine-hundred years ago, Sufi philosopher Al-Ghazali provided rigorous advice that’s not very popular these days. “To understand the stars,” he said, “one must polish the ...