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Eat. Watch. Do. Thursday, May 1, 2025 | | |
| | It’s Thursday, Chicago. And it’s also
now May! I love it when the newsletter aligns with the beginning of a new month. This week, we’re celebrating the bevy of cafes brewing coffee on Pilsen’s 18th Street, waking up an evolving neighborhood. We also have the scoop on new restaurant openings in Chicago and the suburbs for your next night out. Plus, film critic Michael Phillips reviews the newest Marvel movie “Thunderbolts*” starring Florence Pugh, which
"feels like something relatively new and vivid." Enjoy the weekend, we’ll see you back here next week. — Lauryn Azu, deputy senior editor | | Pulsing through and around 18th Street in Pilsen, there are now over a dozen independent, Latino-owned coffee stores. | | | Florence Pugh leads a crew of scrappy misfits. It’s a familiar premise, “Suicide Squad” did the same thing, but here it works. | | | The evolution of Proxi is a culmination of the journeys of executive chef Andrew Zimmerman, managing partner Emmanuel Nony and chef de cuisine Jennifer Kim. | | | Nine things you probably didn’t know about the guitarist and keyboardist for the Talking Heads and co-founder of the Modern Lovers. | | | Chicago Gourmet, the upscale food festival that celebrates the city as a “culinary capital,” will be returning to Millennium Park Sept. 25 to 28 with a new, sporty twist. | | | In Taylor Mac’s version, the title character is inspired by a bit part, simply called a “country fellow” in the original, who is sentenced to hang by the Roman emperor. | | | Edie Fake’s mural, now on display at the Museum of Contemporary Art, is hard to pin down. Also, Edie Fake is hard to pin down. | | | What would happen if a Black man in the middle of a confrontation with the police was suddenly teleported away? So begins Zora Howard’s new play. | | | Most of Jane Austen’s correspondence was burned after her death. This PBS Masterpiece series speculates as to why. | | | |