Warming temperatures mean it’s time to get out there and strut. From book signings to variety shows, there’s something coming up for everyone’s walking speed. Sweet Void Cinema screeningssweetvoidcinema.com The Humboldt Park-based production company and microcinema Sweet Void Cinema (3036 W. Chicago, Suite 1W) collects shorts from local filmmakers and screens them monthly as a […]
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Posted inCity of Win
Dropping beats and seeds
Englewood rapper Heavy Crownz blends art and community organizing.
Posted inFood & Drink
Grow your own insurgent fungi farm
Four Star Mushrooms is selling its spent substrate to gardeners and other subversives.
Posted inFood & Drink
Get growing with City Grange’s Great Grow Along
The three-day virtual gardening festival kicks off Friday.
Posted inCity Life
How a Chicago master gardener transformed her yard from bleak to bountiful
Musician and gardener Ellen Bunch turned her Irving Park backyard into an organic garden.
Posted inFilm
Reluctant auteur Steve James on life and Life Itself
Acclaimed documentary filmmaker Steve James discusses his life in the Chicago suburbs and his new film on Roger Ebert, Life Itself.
Posted inArts & Culture
V-Day Issue: Finding love in poli-sci and sci-fi
V-Day Issue: Claire and Rufus Barner intend to leave Chicago a better place than they found it.
Posted inCity Life
Off the ground in Bowmanville
Liz and Alex Gabbard allow us to climb into and poke around their urban tree house in Bowmanville.
Posted inColumns & Opinion
The city’s other weed problem
Environmentalist Kathy Cummings files suit after being busted under the city’s lucrative weed ordinance.
Posted inCity Life
Lauren Viera’s Logan house of spirits
Cocktail writer Lauren Viera guides us through her library of booze.
Posted inBlogs
The Ohio House Coffee Shop is closing and other food news bites
Counterfeit fish, green dumplings, and more
Posted inBlogs
A chat with Amy Stewart, The Drunken Botanist
The author discusses her new book, about the relationship between plants and booze.
Posted inBlogs
This Week’s Food and Drink Events
Rooftop dinners, cupcake contests, foraged foods, and more.