Billy Corgan wants his tea house steeped in the aura of salons past

THOMAS CONNER: Smashing Pumpkins frontman Billy Corgan opens his Highland Park Madame Zuzu’s Tea House Thursday. It’s an idea he said he’s had for a decade, one that’s finally budding with the venture housed in a former post office storefront at 582 Roger Williams Ave. “I’ve never had coffee,” the rocker says. “I’ve always hated the smell,”

• Mateo and Diaz bring ‘American Dream’ to fruition

  Funny ladies Wendy Mateo and Lorena Diaz bring “People in the City: Bodegas, Beisbol & the American Dream,” a romp through city streets featuring nearly 20 different characters from old Jewish ladies to latchkey kids and Latino men, to the stage of Luna Central.

• Hyde Park to get new club

  The Promontory will open at 1539 E. 53rd St. in early 2013 in Hyde Park. The concert venue, bar and restaurant is named after Hyde Park’s iconic Promontory Point and is headed by the team behind Longman & Eagle.

• ‘Jekyll and Hyde,’ ‘Anything Goes’ among Broadway in Chicago’s spring 2013 season lineup

  Broadway in Chicago’s Spring 2013 season, much of it already announced, is now complete. The full lineup is as follows: — “Jekyll and Hyde” (March 12-24 at the Cadillac Palace Theatre), a new edition of then Frank Wildhorn-Leslie Bricusse musical that ean on Broadway for …Read More