Yah’s Cuisine cooks up vegan comfort foodLast January, Yah’s Cuisine became the second vegan restaurant specializing in soul food to open on 75th Street. Located roughly three miles from its well-established predecessor, Soul Vegetarian East, Yah’s may be signaling the…
Author Archive for Emilie Shumway
Ghosts of Fathers Past: Fathers and sons butt heads at eta
by Emilie Shumway •
“You think six feet of dirt means something?” quips the ghost of Leon Goldwater’s trumpet-toting father in eta’s new production of “Fathers and Sons.” The essence of the story is encapsulated in this sentence. Although the show is not a…
Bad Dreams: Too much abstraction mars Dream Theatre’s double feature
by Emilie Shumway •
To describe Dream Theatre Company’s theatrical double-feature “Aelita” and “Shiny Boxes” as two plays is perhaps slightly inaccurate. The two shows, which opened February 4 at Pilsen’s Dream Theatre Company, desperately seek a postmodern audience as they align more with…
Scav Hunt, Incorporated: Four alumni of the world’s largest scavenger hunt turn a hobby into a business
by Emilie Shumway •
The University of Chicago Scavenger Hunt (“Scav Hunt”) is frequently touted as the world’s largest scavenger hunt. The hunt is a four-day long event, famously ridiculous and fun, with teams made up of university affiliates—mainly undergraduates, but with some representation…
The Writing on the Wall: Quinn Dombrowski documents the Regenstein Library’s graffiti
by Emilie Shumway •
The University of Chicago’s Joseph Regenstein Library is one of the largest research libraries in the world, with over 7.7 million volumes in its collection. But books aren’t the only worthwhile reading material in the building—anyone who walks the perimeter…
Vamp Camp: Court Theater revives a gender-bending gothic horror farce
by Emilie Shumway •
With the allure of romanticized vampirism clearly on the rise, as demonstrated by innocents like me knowing the “Twilight: New Moon” plot and release date, Charles Ludlam’s classically irreverent “The Mystery of Irma Vep,” directed by Sean Graney, graced the…
The Sacred Harp Club Band
by Emilie Shumway •
Last Saturday morning, while many Hyde Parkers were still recovering from Friday night festivities, a barrage of loud choral music was spilling out of a room in the University of Chicago’s Goodspeed Hall. The gathering of the Sacred Harp singers…
Tacos de Soya: El Faro serves hard-to-find veg-friendly Mexican cuisine
by Emilie Shumway •
Vegetarian Mexican food is something of an anomaly, right up there with flying pigs and Bat Boy. Which is why the cuisine at El Faro, Little Village’s only expressly vegetarian-oriented Mexican restaurant, is as much an experience as a meal.…
