Pregnant travel blogger Maleeha Sambur sports a versatile denim tunic.
Tag: Vol. 45 No. 46
Issue of Aug. 25 – 31, 2016
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John Legend, Tika Sumpter, and Parker Sawyers reflect on Southside With You
The romantic drama, which recreates Barack and Michelle Obama’s first date in Chicago, opens nationwide.
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From book’s blurbs, you’d never know these critics slammed the play
Haymarket’s published version of Steppenwolf’s This is Modern Art selectively excerpts some of the play’s reviews.
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The Chicago Police Department once published a magazine featuring crime-fighting tactics—and casserole recipes
CPD printed the glossy lifestyle magazine Main 13 between 1921 and ’23.
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When did adult diapers become commercially available?
Cecil Adams soaks up the origin story of adult incontinence products.
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The White Sox will play at ‘Guaranteed Rate Field’ in 2017, and other Chicago news
Also, the University of Chicago advises incoming students about its “commitment to freedom of inquiry and expression” on campus, as opposed to “intellectual safe spaces.”
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Barack and Michelle Obama’s love affair—with each other, and the city—hits the big screen
Chicago plays itself in this dramatization of the First Couple’s first date.
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Did soccer player Hope Solo deserve all the criticism she got?
Pundits jumped on the goalkeeper after she called the Swedish team that bested hers “a bunch of cowards.”
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Curbside Splendor’s first storefront comes to Revival Food Hall
The independent press’s book and record store hopes to join in the downtown food court’s spirit of community.
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Watch a Soho House Chicago bartender make a buttered popcorn-inspired cocktail
Challenged to create a drink with popcorn, Matthew Jannotta infused corn whiskey with butter for a buttered popcorn cocktail.
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Limited-edition Chicago-made hot sauce Wrath of Hahn inspires burning desire
“The demand got so crazy that I realized I had to charge money,” Theodore Hahn says of his homemade hot sauce.
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DOJ’s new stance on bail bonds won’t help poor inmates in Cook County Jail
Illinois law already prohibits fixed bail, and the poor are disproportionately jailed anyway.
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Trap House Chicago bridges streetwear and restorative justice
Mashaun Hendricks’s for-profit clothing line is just one aspect of his activist efforts to address the city’s gun violence.
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A tag team of underground Chicago rappers has fun with Logan Square’s Discount Megamall
Local MCs Rich Jones, Morimoto, Nnamdi Ogbonnaya, and JD make a backdrop of the Megamall’s graffiti-covered walls in the video for the new track “They Don’t Wanna Know.”