Eating Right
When I meet Arel Brown, he is in his hairnet and apron, sporting the neon green T-shirt that is the uniform of Eternity Juice Bar & Deli. He is in the middle of preparing food, and shows me the pieces of raw kale stuck to his hand when I reach out to shake it.... » Unwelcomed
Off the Brown Line, past a Starbucks and a lighting store, near the Moody Bible Institute, around the corner from a restaurant that used to be cool, down the street from Le Cordon Bleu Culinary School, surrounded by churches on one side, expensive realty on the other, you’ll find the most dangerous place in... » Playground Poets
On April 10, in the mezzanine of the South Shore Cultural Center, an unusual partnership was formed between Ed Borstein and Noah Emmanuel. Ed is a lanky 25-year-old University of Iowa graduate and drummer for the Chicago punk band T’Bone. Noah is a sixteen-year-old South Shore resident and avid Drake fan. The pair spent... » Slow-Motion Emergency
Everyone was well fed—Diane Adams made sure of it. The 56-year-old ran back and forth across the Woodlawn Mental Health Center so fast her red and orange outfit blurred into a comet. » Michael Ondaatje’s wise wordsTucked in the Performance Penthouse of the UofC’s Logan Center, Michael Ondaatje induced just as much laughter as he did thought at his talk last Monday, unafraid to admit... » Recycled Fashion
Adaeze Okorafor graduated from Northwestern with a degree in Bio-Engineering and a specialization in Prosthetics in 2010. She is now the founder of Dash Me—a Chicago-based company that hosts... » Black Magic Women
“Collective Magnetism,” by Sara Mosk, is an appropriate introduction to “Black Arts,” both for the magnetic pull of its sounds and images, and for its place in the collective... » The Plaster Caster
Cynthia Albritton, a Chicago native and South Side resident better known as “Cynthia Plaster Caster,” has lived the dream of teenage girls around the world. A self-titled “recovering groupie,”... » Reconceiving Time
In 1988, Adelheid Mers—curator of “Hairy Blob,” currently on view at the Hyde Park Arts Center—received a yearlong grant for graduate study at the University of Chicago’s Committee on... » All sketched outUpon entering the Sketchbook Project, you sign up for a “library card.” Proceeding to a computer station, you can request books by location, theme, format, or medium. After you’ve... » South Kawa“This would be a really great place to bring a date, if you didn’t want anybody to see you together,” my friend said as we walked into South Kawa... » Growing SMALLAt Bridgeport’s Co-Prosperity Sphere this past Friday, two DJs occupied the center of the room, trading off tracks from a stack of Beastie Boys LPs in honor of MCA,... » The Culture ConnectionA crowd reached about forty, all gathered April 24 to speak about their visions for the growth of Chicago’s cultural future at the Bridgeport Co-prosperity sphere. » |
