Eat. Watch. Do. Thursday, October 23, 2025 | | |
| | | | | It’s Thursday, Chicago. That chill down your spine isn’t just because it’s nippy out. With Halloween drawing nearer, we have a host of restaurant specials where you can satisfy your sweet tooth, and a review for a creepy puppet show at Steppenwolf. This week, Nina Metz checks out an experimental sound installation starring ferns and ponders the rise of celebrity documentaries on streaming services. Plus, don’t miss your chance to vote in our cookie contest. Polls close Friday at midnight. Enjoy the weekend, we’ll see you back here next week. — Lauryn Azu, deputy senior editor | | | | Rough House Theatre’s annual Halloween show is back at Steppenwolf, with puppets, artists and environments telling you stories that you won’t understand right away. | | | | | Oct. 31 is a Friday this year, which has left Chicago bars and restaurants split on when to celebrate Halloween. | | | | | “Florasonic: Semblance of Fern” is the newest installation at Lincoln Park Conservatory’s Fern Room. | | | | | It’s not just for women though, “We’re for anyone who wants to be part of the women’s sports community.” | | | | | This new Yoko Ono retrospective is epic but intimate, impossibly earnest but funny and full of irony, without a single wink. | | | | | Just a few days remain to get your votes in and help decide which reader recipes will advance to the final round of the Tribune’s 39th annual Holiday Cookie Contest. | | | | | Sandra Delgado’s impassioned new theater piece makes three points about the dysfunction of the U.S. immigration system. | | | |
