Meet 2021’s Takeout Crazeon December 22, 2020 at 9:48 pm
Kare raisu, a saucy Japanese classic that’ll warm you to the core, is popping up on carryout menus all over town.Read More
Meet 2021’s Takeout Crazeon December 22, 2020 at 9:48 pm Read More »
It Is Dangerously Easy to Spend $200 at Stadium Goodson December 22, 2020 at 4:37 pm
The celebrated foot fashion and streetwear destination lands on Walton, offering collectors a chance at serious bragging rights.Read More
It Is Dangerously Easy to Spend $200 at Stadium Goodson December 22, 2020 at 4:37 pm Read More »
Chicago MC Freddie Old Soul captures the complications of pandemic life on The First PeopleLeor Galilon December 22, 2020 at 6:00 pm
Chicago rapper Fredrianna Harris, aka Freddie Old Soul, uses hip-hop to open a vivid window into everyday life. On “Hot Tamale,” one of the best tracks off her new self-released EP, The First People, she turns groceries into a narrative device that bundles up seemingly stray musings about young motherhood, COVID-19, and the unrelenting presence of death.…Read More
The year of TikTokBrianna Wellenon December 22, 2020 at 4:30 pm
How local creatives made the most of the social media platform in 2020
During a year when screen time has felt more like a punishment than a reward and the word “viral” has taken on a completely different meaning, one social media platform has stood out from the rest and in many ways defined 2020: TikTok. Its continuing popularity is likely due in part to the creatives who flocked to the app when traditional venues were shuttered in the midst of the pandemic.…Read More
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The Best of the Miyumi Project celebrates 20 years of Tatsu Aoki’s culture-combining ensembleBill Meyeron December 22, 2020 at 2:00 pm
Tatsu Aoki left his native Tokyo in 1977 to study experimental film and settled in Chicago two years later. In addition to making films, he improvises, composes, and conducts music, playing bass, shamisen, and taiko drums, and by the early 1990s he’d connected with the local jazz scene, developing a particular affinity with past and present members of the Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians.…Read More