Restaurants should embrace community food stability during patio season, and beyond
Tag: Vol. 49 No. 36
Issue of Jun. 11 – 17, 2020
Posted inColumns & Opinion
How Chicago musicians are showing up
Thoughts on the shuttered music venues in the city
Posted inMusic
A room of Ohmme’s own
On Fantasize Your Ghost, Macie Stewart and Sima Cunningham make their music a place of trust, discovery, and compassion.
Posted inColumns & Opinion
On lurking and sex buddies during a pandemic
Answers to quickies in quarantine
Posted inNews & Politics
From soldier to worker
Police unions were born of resistance to discipline for brutality. Do they belong in the labor movement?
Posted inNews & Politics
The new normal
What the aftermath of coronavirus will bring for Chicago’s small businesses
Posted inColumns & Opinion
After 40 years, Saint Xavier University wipes out its faculty union
COVID-19 provides cover for a union bust at Saint Xavier University.
Posted inArts & Culture
The Small Hours Festival creates community through monodramas
Prop Thtr’s virtual monologue festival calls time on the usual theater cliques.
Posted inMusic
A tribute to Big Floyd on the (fantasy) gig poster of the week
This week’s featured fantasy gig poster was created by local illustrator and designer Teshika Silver.
Posted inMusic
Olivia Junell, codirector of Experimental Sound Studio
“Right before the shelter-in-place got announced, we started thinking: OK, how can we help?”
Posted inNews & Politics
Your wildest dreams and odd sleep patterns during the pandemic, explained
Therapists and sleep neurologists explain what’s making people rest uneasy as Chicago eases into a partial reopening.
Posted inMusic
Vince Lawrence’s greatest moment in Chicago music history
House-music pioneer Vince Lawrence remembers the huge scene-defining parties he helped throw as a teenager.
Posted inFood & Drink
Ina Mae Tavern’s Brian Jupiter turns some dry-ass chicken breast into the ultimate protein ball
Chef Jup needs fuel.
Posted inFilm
Chicago Drive-In opens in Bridgeview
A group of local festival and event organizers invite us to the movies.