Street View, featuring a sartorially daring accountant
Tag: Vol. 46 No. 31
Issue of May. 11 – 17, 2017
Watch Saint Lou’s Assembly chef Carlos Cruz make a ‘land caviar’ dish that really pops
Challenged to create a dish with tonburi, a seed considered a delicacy in Japan, the chef uses it four ways.
The graphic novel Imagine Wanting Only This turns comics into poetry
Kristen Radtke’s essay in images explores loss, ruins, and restlessness.
Queer and proud in a cool protester outfit
Artist Angela Davis Fegan sports a red coverall for a staged protest during the Open Engagement conference.
The dividing line between the U.S. and Canada
An addendum to Adam Gopnik’s argument that “we could have been Canada.”
Historians: The Bronzeville Culver’s is being built on the site of a former Confederate smallpox cemetery, and other Chicago news
Also, an auto parts maker is opening a south-side plant that will create about 300 new jobs.
The party’s getting started on the gig poster of the week
This week’s featured gig poster was created by local artist and designer Scott Williams.
Chicago rap hero Bump J passes the torch to Ty Money
Ty Money’s new Cinco de Money 3 features the first appearance by Bump J since his release from prison last month.
Boy, do we need Jane Jacobs now
Citizen Jane: Battle for the City profiles the author who battled urban expressways and high-rise housing.
Seeing tomorrow’s subscription season today at Louisville’s Humana Festival
The seedbed for new plays has a winner in Chelsea Marcantel’s Airness.
Local FBI chief under consideration for interim FBI director job, and other Chicago news
Also, a mayoral aide says that CPS needs $596 rather than $129 million to finish 2016-2017 school year.
What should the frustrated wife of a man with erectile deficiencies do?
Dan Savage advises a woman in a May-December marriage, and more.
Jamila Woods’s video for ‘Holy’ embodies black self-care
With her video for “Holy,” soul singer Jamila Woods demonstrates how to show love for your community as well as for yourself.