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Thursday, April 17, 2025

It’s Thursday, Chicago.

We’re hopping into the weekend in fashion, with restaurant specials for Easter to peruse and a delicious egg-free cake recipe to try out.

Plus, kick your legs up with a backstage peek into “Moulin Rouge! The Musical” before it departs Cadillac Palace Theatre. Can you say cancan?

Enjoy the weekend, we’ll see you back here next week.

— Lauryn Azu, deputy senior editor

Easter 2025: 70 Chicago restaurant specials, from brunch buffets to hearty dinners

Easter is one of the biggest brunch occasions of the year, but also a time for hearty dinners centering on roast lamb and honey-baked ham and baskets filled with sweet treats.

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With the Tony-winning costumes in 'Moulin Rouge! The Musical,' over-the-top extravagance is just right

The touring musical based on the 2001 Baz Luhrmann movie travels with about 500 costumes in all.

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Recipe: With the high price of eggs, this yellow birthday cake recipe goes egg-free

Instead of egg yolks to give this cake its golden color, ground turmeric lends a sunny hue without artificial food coloring.

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‘Sinners’ review: In Ryan Coogler’s juicy mashup, a pair of Michael B. Jordans dance with the devil

With “Sinners,” filmmaker Ryan Coogler creates a big, flawed, juicy blues folktale of Black enterprise vs. vampires, literal and figurative.

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Trying to find its footing, Portillo’s takes breakfast for a test run

Oak Brook-based hot dog giant Portillo’s is trying out a breakfast menu for the first time in its 62 years.

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‘Sherlock & Daughter’ review: The detective’s story is tweaked

A young woman from America arrives at Baker Street claiming Sherlock Homes is her father.

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Would you perform with your dad? Sure — when he’s Jeffrey Kahane

Jeffrey and Gabriel Kahane will perform together in a rare duo recital at Northwestern University.

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Review: Mamet’s ‘Henry Johnson’ sorts through the cards we’re dealt in life

Its Chicago premiere at Victory Gardens’ reopened Biograph Theatre won’t please everyone, but those interested in this playwright should not miss it.

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Jazz bassist Matt Ulery returns to his roots with ‘Mother Harp’ and a release concert at Hungry Brain

Since moving to Chicago 25 years ago, Rockford-born bassist Matt Ulery has put out 15 albums of originals. His next is “Mother Harp.”