“Natural” is a word that might evoke wholesome feelings, but also blandness. Just think of a kid’s reaction when they hear they’re getting fruit for dessert. The same rationale is often applied toward natural dyes—that they are good for you and the environment, but a bore to the eye. According to fashion designer, natural dyer, […]
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Sparking joy
“I guess I’m an eclectic dresser,” says Mary Griffin, 72, who currently works part-time at Essential Elements-Chicago boutique in Avalon Park. “Everything about me is eclectic. My home is eclectic. There’s not a pair of anything in my house—nothing matches. My friends enjoy coming over to my house because they say it’s like going to […]
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People Issue 2016: Nineteen Chicagoans in their own words
An Nobel Prize-winning chemist, a 12-year-old theater critic, an American Ninja Warrior stuntman, and more extraordinary Chicagoans
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Poet and soul singer extraordinaire Jamila Woods signs with Closed Sessions
The new “Blk Girl Soldier” is the first single from Jamila Woods’s debut solo mixtape.
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Musical-comedy game show Shame That Tune will shame no more
The musical-comedy game show Shame That Tune ends its run tonight at the Hideout.
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Reader premiere: The bizarre video for Nnamdi Ogbonnaya’s ‘2% Chest’
We’ve got the exclusive premiere of the video for “2% Chest,” a delightfully strange antipop song off Nnamdi Ogbonnaya’s forthcoming album.
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12 O’Clock Track: Allan Kingdom sounds like he’s rapping in reverse on “Achilles”
The Twin Cities MC goes wild dropping rhymes on the spacey tune from last year’s Talk to Strangers EP.
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The People Issue: The B Side
Someone doesn’t have to be famous to be interesting—and that’s just as true in the Chicago music scene as it is anywhere else.
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Reader’s Agenda Fri 2/8: Angel Olsen, Love in the Time of Online Dating, and Community’s Danny Pudi
What’s on the Reader‘s Agenda for Friday, February 8, 2013.
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Deep-sea discovery with Janet Voight
Janet Voight, deep-sea biologist, talks about what she’s found at the bottom of the ocean
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The passion of Vern Hester
Photography, rock, Buddhism, and enthusiasm are a part of what makes him one extraordinary Chicagoan
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A glimpse of the Chicago music scene that thrives outside the glare of the spotlight
The B Side of the People Issue: Angel Olsen, Million Dollar Mano, Dee Alexander, and more
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Endangering the lives of children: the ceaseless train of tragedy in segregated neighborhoods
Traumatic losses are almost commonplace for some kids in Chicago
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People Issue 2012: Jackie Taylor, the dramatist
Black Ensemble Theater founder: “I put my life into this and I don’t want it to go when my life goes.”