Eat. Watch. Do. Thursday, September 11, 2025 | | |
| | | | | It’s Thursday, Chicago. Looking for one last summer hurrah this weekend? An evening concert under the setting sun, celebrating Chicago artists Curtis Mayfield and Gwendolyn Brooks, may just be the thing. We have that story, plus new restaurant openings and the latest on the city’s craze for matcha tea. Also this week, Tribune critic Nina Metz reviews Season 5 of “Only Murders in the Building,” the comedic whodunit on Hulu, plus we review a show at the Art Institute that you can’t miss this fall. Enjoy the weekend, we’ll see you back here next week. — Lauryn Azu, deputy editor | | | | Three pop-up cafes have customers going the extra mile to get iced matcha lattes, despite unprecedented threats to matcha stockpiles in Japan as demand outpaces supply. | | | | | The death of The Arconia’s longtime doorman is the latest whodunit for Mabel, Charles and Oliver. | | | | | Darnell Reed bought the building, marking ownership for the ode to his great-grandmother, who migrated from Morgan City, Mississippi, in 1943. | | | | | The iconic Chicagoans are the focus of the latest project by Lucy Smith of the Lucy Smith Quintet and journalist Cheryl Corley that will play a Night Out in the Parks event this weekend. | | | | | A new food truck festival is pulling up in Chicago’s West Pullman neighborhood, aiming to foster community engagement and economic growth in an area organizers say is often overlooked. | | | | | “Elizabeth Catlett: ‘A Black Revolutionary Artist and All That It Implies'” is full of artwork that stops you in your tracks when you meant to be walking through the exhibit. | | | | | We know the dinosaurs of the Mesozoic era and the woolly mammoths of the ice age. But what about the millions of years in between? | | | |
