I can’t even tell you how many times people have asked me, “When is Zara coming to Chicago?” The massive Spanish retailer is beloved by budget-minded style hunters for its dedication to cosmopolitan style and up-to-the-last-second mimicking of street trends—designs can hit the stores just two weeks off the drawing board. And now I can […]
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What Are You Wearing?
The Collector Mel Racho, 27, is a video artist who teaches motion graphics at Columbia College and Web-site construction at After School Matters. She lives in Logan Square. Tell me about your outfit. I’m wearing capri pants for a really tall woman, but they are regular-length jeans on me. My bow tie… I teach at […]
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Chicago Classics: A Springtime Sampler of Urban Architecture
Photographs by Brady Shea and Betsy Walsh Scratch a Chicago and, if he doesn’t scratch you back or spit in your eye, he’ll probably tell you he’s got this love affair going with the city’s architecture. There’s a strange romance in this town that’s developed around buildings, and it makes a kind of sense, given […]
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A Day in the Life of the Mind: Part Three
Since Chicago’s greatest theatrical event went unnoticed by the Jefferson Awards Committee, we take this opportunity to commemorate it: It all began, of course, in the swarming imagination beneath the frizzy red hair of Sally Banes. It began to take on a definite shape one day in January when Frank Gruber, the photographer, met Sally […]