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Billboard awards are Taylor-made
Another day, another domination for Taylor Swift: She was the red hot winner at the Billboard Music Awards. Swift won eight of 11 awards, including top artist and top Billboard 200 album for “Red.” She told the crowd: “You are the longest and best relationship I ever had.” She also had a colorful performance of her hit “22” — starting backstage and working her way to the main stage on the back of a bike with help from a dozen background dancers and a flurry of red balloons.
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Arts and entertainment calendar for May 23
Check out the variety of fun events and activities in your area this week!
Teen promoter battles cancer with concerts
The bands battle each other, of course, but their true, common enemy is cancer. Back in 2009 Alec Lopata, now a sophomore at Deerfield High School, learned that his friend Jack had been diagnosed with leukemia.
Movies opening, still in theaters
Michael Shannon kills for a living in “The Iceman” and the crew of the Enterprise warps back into action in “Star Trek Into Darkness.”
Table Hopping: To taste Paris, head to Mundelein
“When I was three years old I said to my mom, ‘I want to become a chef,’” said Claude Bouteille, the long-time chef and baker who has been plying his craft in the north of Chicago for the past 22 years.
Family Friendly: Potts & Pans to bang the steel dream
It’s a happy coincidence that Matt Potts’ name matches his chosen profession. He is the leader of Potts & Pans Steelband, which will visit the Arlington Heights Memorial Library, 500 N. Dunton Ave., 2 to 4 p.m. Saturday, May 18.
Mahler’s ‘Resurrection’ a fitting finale for Heatherington
On the evenings of Friday May 17 and Saturday May 18 Maestro Alan Heatherington will conduct the Lake Forest Symphony in Mahler’s “Resurrection” symphony,” with the Chicago Master Singers, two of the three groups, including Ars Viva Symphony Orchestra, he has directed for dozens of years.
Spotlight: People to watch
Clear choice: Maggie Cain of Glenview is reprising her role as Amanda, a faded southern belle clinging to the past, in Mary-Arrchie Theatre Co’s restaging of its acclaimed production of “The Glass Menagerie.”
Eifman Ballet takes inspiration from Rodin
The Eifman Ballet of St. Petersburg, Russia has visited Chicago’s Auditorium Theatre on a regular basis since 2000.
New releases on DVD, Blu-ray
Tom Hanks and company span 500 years of history in “Cloud Atlas” and director Sam Raimi’s 1986 comedy “Crimewave” makes its long-awaited DVD debut.
Shannon serves up murder cold in ‘Iceman’
It’s hard to figure out what’s scarier in this old-school, disco-era, homicide-happy mob movie: the titular cold-blooded killer or the 1970s in general.
Movies opening, still in theaters
Leonardo DiCaprio gets jazzy in “The Great Gatsby,” Pierce Brosnan gets blind-sided by romance in “All You Need is Love” and Craig Robinson gets dissed by his girlfriend’s daddy in “Peeples,” all in area theaters.
Arts and entertainment calendar for May 16
Check out the variety of fun events and activities in your area this week!
Fashion collection lands at Cuneo Mansion & Gardens
Combine the wealth and lifestyle of “Downton Abbey” with the ‘60s fashion of “Mad Men,” and you get the exhibit of Martha Weathered fashions at Cuneo Mansion.
Restaurants up the ante for youngest customers
It’s the Holy Grail of eating out as a family — a kids’ menu with something other than chicken fingers, hamburgers and french fries. In other words, food that kids want to eat and adults want them to eat.
‘Vera Stark’ about breaking boundaries
At the time that Lynn Nottage was working on her 2009 Pulitzer Prize-winning play, “Ruined” — about violence against women in the Democratic Republic of Congo — she was writing another play that could not have been more different.
