Events
The Culture Connection
A 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. »
Quietly Provocative
The face behind all of the genitalia, racial slurs, vomit, tongues, human feces, urine, breasts, and crude depictions of “Coco River Fudge Street” is a reticent, mild-mannered, and self-critical man in his early thirties. »
Pillaging Hallowed Grounds
Something was wrong at the Reynolds Club. The late Saturday sun hadn’t quite set, and passersby on 57th street turned their faces up towards the second floor coffee shop with varying degrees of concern, curiosity, and confusion. The perpetrator? The noisily melodic wails and screams of Divinity School student Daniel Wyche, a man who... »
Worth a thousand words
“I’m not really a superhero person,” announces Deirdre Jones, a member of First Aid Comics’s graphic novel discussion club as she snacks on Skittles. On a weekday, Jones might be in First Aid buying Spiderman comics for her six-year-old son—the ones that feature Miles Morales, an African-American and Latino boy trying to get into... »
Sex-positive party
It was a conservative pundit’s worst nightmare. In a fit of ecstatic tolerance, sexual discrimination, gender binaries, and the heteronormative hierarchy disappeared. Out of the remaining wormhole came free HIV testing, drag shows, dancing, and wholehearted acceptance—such was the scene at the Rhythm and Queers Dance Party last Friday night. The resplendent fundraiser was... »
South Side Crescendo
When one considers Chicago African-American music, the first things that come to mind are probably twelve-bar blues and stirring gospel. But Cornelius V. Johnson, the calm and sagacious Artistic Director and tenor of the South Shore Opera Company (SSOC), which is based out of the South Shore Cultural Center, has something else in mind.... »
Written in Stone
Last Saturday morning, 20 adults, many patrons of the Glessner House, converged in the lobby of Hyde Park’s Oriental Institute. Emily Teeter, a curator for the museum who specializes in Egyptology, stood front and center to guide the group through an architectural history of the museum. The tour began at the beginning: at the... »
Out of Context
“Intimate,” comments Orron Kenyetta, standing in the front room of the Southside Hub of Production (SHoP) on a sunny Sunday afternoon. »
