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Eat. Watch. Do.

Thursday, August 7, 2025

It’s Thursday, Chicago.

After an exhilarating Lolla weekend, we’re now savoring the last few weeks of summer — which means a list of late-season outdoor concerts where you can still snag tickets.

This week, Michael Phillips reviews the latest Disney reboot of the early aughts, “Freakier Friday,” with Jamie Lee Curtis and Lindsay Lohan reprising their roles. Plus, we have the inside access to a new speakeasy-style bar in Pilsen and other restaurant openings in Chicago and the suburbs.

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

— Lauryn Azu, deputy editor

25 outdoor concerts for what’s left of summer, all with tickets available

Our list of open-air concerts from Rod Stewart in Tinley Park this week to Riot Fest on the last weekend of summer, all with tickets available.

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Restaurant news: Cerdito Muerto, a cocktail bar and Mexican American kitchen, transforms an old family home in Pilsen

Owned by Emidio Oceguera, the space was once his mother’s restaurant, Tacos Palacio, and his late father’s neighborhood pool hall.

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It’s not a club, it’s a coffee shop: DJ sets along with your lattes in the latest millennial trend in socializing

The nightclub scene is not dead. It’s just been transformed into something different with the rise of the DJ and coffeehouse scene.

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Got 30 pounds of unused fresh spinach? Musically Fed nonprofit works with Lollapalooza to reduce food waste

During Lollapalooza, Musically Fed was onsite to collect, organize and distribute unused food to organizations supporting unhoused individuals, veterans, women in crisis and low-income families.

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‘Freakier Friday’ review: A multiplied Disney reboot for the age of anxiety

Jamie Lee Curtis and Lindsay Lohan are two of many repeat players in “Freakier Friday,” and that’s good news. The script, less so.

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Column: A new podcast seeks to put you in ‘Hamlet’s’ head

Jeremy McCarter of the Make-Believe Association has created a podcast version of Shakespeare’s play that puts you inside his thoughts, and him in yours.

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Review: Kokandy Productions resurrects the dreamy ‘Amélie the Musical’

This company is the indisputable current leader in edgy, off-Loop musicals and star Aurora Penepacker makes Amélie entirely her own.

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Review: City Lit offers a challenging and poignant production of ‘Jesus Hopped the ‘A’ Train’

The script probes the meaning of justice, the limits of the law in morally gray situations and the role of religious faith in an institution not conducive to redemption.

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Column: After a long day, the last thing I want is to tell GenAI to create a TV show for me to watch

Screenwriters weigh in on why a service promising to use your prompts to create a TV show would be bad. It’s fan fiction without the fans.