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Eat. Watch. Do. 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 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. | | | The touring musical based on the 2001 Baz Luhrmann movie travels with about 500 costumes in all. | | | Instead of egg yolks to give this cake its golden color, ground turmeric lends a sunny hue without artificial food coloring. | | | With “Sinners,” filmmaker Ryan Coogler creates a big, flawed, juicy blues folktale of Black enterprise vs. vampires, literal and figurative. | | | Oak Brook-based hot dog giant Portillo’s is trying out a breakfast menu for the first time in its 62 years. | | | A young woman from America arrives at Baker Street claiming Sherlock Homes is her father. | | | Jeffrey and Gabriel Kahane will perform together in a rare duo recital at Northwestern University. | | | Its Chicago premiere at Victory Gardens’ reopened Biograph Theatre won’t please everyone, but those interested in this playwright should not miss it. | | | Since moving to Chicago 25 years ago, Rockford-born bassist Matt Ulery has put out 15 albums of originals. His next is “Mother Harp.” | | | |