Newcity is pleased to announce the return of the smash hit, our biggest performing arts issue of the year, The Players: Chicago’s leading performers.

While last year’s edition chronicled many behind-the-scenes individuals who bring Chicago theater, dance, opera, comedy and performance to life, this year we’re focusing on the artists, in our perpetual quest to offer a fresh perspective, a fresh list. So this time around, look for Chicago’s leading actors, directors, dancers, choreographers, lighting designers, playwrights and so on.

It will be an issue that lovers of the stage cannot miss. Read the rest of this entry »

Each January, we publish Life 101, an issue dedicated to education based on the theme “Change Your Life.”  The mandate ranges from the casual—a cooking or dance class, a topical forum—to continuing ed and degree programs, especially advanced degrees. In general, we’re targeting an adult population, not pre-college high school kids. Our University of Chicago publication returns that week from break, so you’ll also connect very well with that knowledge-hungry community.

If education is part, or all, of your mission, we hope you’ll engage with us as we endeavor to create a truly special issue. You won’t connect with a finer audience of voracious knowledge seekers anywhere, we guarantee that. Read the rest of this entry »

Check this out.

We’re ending the year with a big bang: our beloved Top 5 of Everything will choose the year’s top movies, music, books, plays and much much more. The New Year’s Eve Party Guide will help revelers navigate the always-fraught waters at the end of the year, and our holiday movie guide will steer folks to and from the best and worst of the array of movies hitting the multiplex.

If you want to end your year on the highest note a business can hit, make sure you advertise in this one. We need your space reserved by Friday, December 16 and your artwork by Monday, December 19.

Email advertising@newcity.com or call 312.243.8786.

Newcity will not publish an issue in print on December 29, but will return on January 5, 2012. See our complete 2012 Editorial Calendar here.

Newcity’s Best of Chicago is the publishing event of the year in the Windy City.

For this, our nineteenth edition, we’re once again publishing it on a brighter, heavier paper stock, and in a stitch-and-trim format that encourages audiences to keep this thing around for a full year.

With 200 or so categories, most of which are not repeated for five years, Newcity’s Best of Chicago has no competition as a chronicle of the finest our city has to offer. And with our signature takes on the city’s zeitgeist provided in a comprehensive audience poll, you can be confident that your marketing message will reside at the very center of Chicago’s conversation.

And this year, we’re pleased to announce that we’ll be publishing a companion edition of the best of Best of Chicago in ebook format, so Chicago will be thinking Best of Chicago in print, online, Kindle, iPad and every other way known to man for the entire year.

So give your operation the adrenaline shot of the year by booking space in the Best of Chicago.

Issue Date: December 15
Space Reservation Deadline: December 8
Preferred Materials Deadline: December 9

Advertising@Newcity.com or 312.243.8786

See the archives from the past couple of years here: best.newcity.com

Timed to coincide with the Chicago Humanities Festival’s “TechKnowledge” week, Newcity will explore, in our usual style of sophisticated analysis mixed with thoughtful reporting, the transformative impact of technology in our society, culture and personal lives. This package of stories will fill the entire issue, including the main feature wells of our different arts sections.

We invite you to advertise in this sure to be much-read and much-discussed edtion.

Space deadline: Friday, October 28

For more information or pricing, advertising@newcity.com or 312.243.8786

Hits the streets the day before Black Wednesday!

With a “shop-local” gift focus + a selective guide to seasonal events

Who should advertise?

Retailers,  including museum gift shops, who rely on the holiday season to make or break your year and have a great story to tell our large, city-based and affluent audience;

Nightclubs who want to tell us where to go on Black Wednesday (this issue comes out the day before);

Theaters, dance companies and cultural institutions who produce special shows for the season or want to encourage gift certificates as a holiday gift; Read the rest of this entry »

Newcity is bringing back its definitive guide to the movers and shakers in Chicago’s dining and drinking world when The Big Heat publishes August 25. But for the first time, we’re going to publish most of the list in a countdown fashion on NewcityResto.com, starting June 20 with #50.

Print Publication Date: August 25

Advertising Space & Materials Deadline: August 18

Advertising@newcity.com or 312.243.8786

Newcity is pleased to announce the return of our biggest literary issue of the year, Lit 50: Who Really Books in Chicago, timed to coincide with the Midwest’s biggest literary event, the Printers Row Lit Fest.

While last year’s edition chronicled Chicago’s leading writers, poets, book designers, and so on, this year we look at those who exert influence over Chicago’s literary culture, including many of the behind-the-scenes individuals who bring Chicago’s literary world  to life in ways big and small.

It will be an issue that lovers of the book cannot miss.

If you have not reserved space, please do so. This edition will reach Chicago’s most avid supporters of the literary arts, not to mention that your investment will help support Newcity’s ongoing increase in literary coverage at a time when everyone else is stepping back.

Please reserve space by this Friday, May 26. Artwork is due Tuesday, May 31 at noon.

And be sure to keep up with our literary coverage at Newcity Lit .

Newcity owns summer in Chicago.

We launched it seventeen years ago, as a promotion for our Summer Guide edition, which we wanted to call “the official users manual for sunshine” and thought it would work better if there were an actual sunny season to help audiences understand what we were getting at. It was very popular and we decided to expand it from a one-time promotional tie-in into one of the perpetual seasons. Where there were only three major seasons, now there are four. (Summer is like the Fox Network of seasons, though less right-wing.) For many of us, this newfangled thing we call summer is now the most popular.

You’re welcome.

Whether you’re selling a swimsuit for the beach, or shorts for the beer garden; whether you’re operating a beer garden or an al fresco restaurant; whether you’re selling beer, wine or picnic baskets to pack for a night at Ravinia; or whether you are Ravinia or Pitchfork, the potential riches of summer abound. And of course we can’t forget theater productions, art shows and street fairs. Read the rest of this entry »

Newcity’s April 28 issue—”Breakout Artists: Chicago’s Next Generation of Image Makers”—will be our eighth annual edition devoted to showcasing Chicago’s top emerging artists. Each new edition of Newcity’s Breakout Artists issue has become the talk of Chicago during the course of the Art Chicago/NEXT/Artropolis art fairs.

So who should advertise in this issue? Well anyone connected to the art world, either as an exhibition venue, a teacher of art or as a seller of art, of course. But beyond that, anyone interested in connecting to culture in its most exuberant form, or reaching the consumers of art—often the most demographically desirable of all—whether to offer them a place to eat, to shop, or to have a cocktail. To inquire about rates and space availability, email advertising@newcity.com.

Space Reservation Deadline: Thursday, April 21

Materials Deadline: Friday, April 22 (preferred), Monday, April 25 (late)