Eat. Watch. Do. Thursday, March 5, 2026 | | |
| | | | | It’s Thursday, Chicago. We’re so close to another weekend — and a forecast with a sprinkle of spring-like showers. In the meantime, these dreary days call for good food and togetherness, like enjoying home-style gut-busting Polish cuisine in the cozy booths at Red Apple Buffet, or community iftar dinners at Northwestern’s campus during Ramadan. And an upcoming exhibit at the Griffin Museum of Science and Industry, created by the Anne Frank House, includes a full-scale recreation of the Secret Annex in Amsterdam, where she spent two years hiding from the Nazis. Read about it here. Enjoy the weekend, we’ll see you back here next week. — Lauryn Azu, deputy senior editor | | | | The last few years have seen broad changes in the Muslim student experience at Northwestern, specifically during the month of Ramadan, when observing students are fasting from dawn to dusk. | | | | | This world-premiere adaptation of the novel by Junot Díaz stars Lenin Izquierdo of Humboldt Park as the Dominican American hero at the center of the story. | | | | | The Red Apple Buffet weekend buffet, which claims to be the nation’s largest Polish buffet, is so vast, homey and engorging you must, must wear your stretchy pants. | | | | | The exhibit at the Griffin MSI will feature a recreation of the Secret Annex in Amsterdam, allowing visitors to see where Anne Frank and seven others hid during World War II. | | | | | Chef Diana Dávila of Logan Square’s Mi Tocaya Antojería and Chef Beverly Kim of Parachute HiFi and Anelya in Avondale are among 16 chefs competing for the $1 million grand prize in the first season of the new competition series. | | | | | Here are the Oscar nominees for best picture and where to watch them in Chicago theaters before the awards ceremony on March 15. | | | | | “Chicago 1971” is about the summer night when Kris Kristofferson, Steve Goodman and John Prine met. | | | |
