This week’s issue is now available in print and online, and here are some of the highlights: an agricultural high school on the far Southwest Side teaches kids subjects like hydroponics, horticulture, and animal science alongside more traditional classes like art and chemistry. The South Shore Opera Company of Chicago, founded almost a year ago to bring opera to the South Side, is holding a fundraiser concert with pieces from popular musicals. Nightwood brings chic organic dining to Pilsen. antena’s Halloween exhibition, “Zombies: A Mindless Affair,” focuses on the literal and metaphorical living dead. And jazz piano legend Chuchito Valdés plays Mandel Hall tomorrow night.
Oct 22