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Cellist Ari Scott with white fake fur winter coat and turquoise bike helmet

More is more

by Isa Giallorenzo December 23, 2021December 23, 2021

“I will go to a place and prefer to be overdressed. It’s just nice to have fun with things like that,” says 23-year-old Ari Scott, a cello player who’s finishing her master’s degree in music performance at DePaul. “I love to dress up for recitals. It’s a great excuse to go all out and wear […]

City Life

Mapping out a reader’s delight

by Salem Collo-Julin August 28, 2020August 18, 2021

Upcoming events and distractions from our listings coordinator

Music

His Royal Bikeness on the gig poster of the week

by Salem Collo-Julin April 22, 2020August 18, 2021

This week’s featured gig poster was created by Chicago artist and educator Andrea Hill Fitzgerald.

Arts & Culture

Jessica Hopper’s memoir Night Moves pays homage to a bygone era in Chicago—the aughts

by Kevin Warwick September 18, 2018August 18, 2021

On being young, ambitious, and falling in love with the city, block by block, on a bicycle.

Blogs

Bikes, brews and a bear (kinda) highlight Tour De Fat 2018

by Rick Majewski July 2, 2018August 18, 2021

New Belgium’s annual fest benefitted West-Town Bikes.

Thirty-five percent of the stolen bikes posted on the Chicago Stolen Bike Registry were locked with easy-to-cut cable locks; less than 10 percent were secured with a U-lock to a bike rack—the preferred method.

News & Politics

Vigilante cyclists reunite owners with stolen bikes

by Julia Thiel September 3, 2014August 18, 2021

Fed up with bike theft, Chicago cyclists are doing online investigations, setting up sting operations with police, and confronting the criminals face-to-face.