Andersonville
This stretch of Clark Street, once known mostly for Swedish shops and restaurants, has recently emerged as a source for high-design home goods. Herewith, some of the shops redefining the neighborhood . . .
Year: 2009
Custom Fashion in Pilsen
Out of the Mouths of Babes
Within a month after graduating from the Chicago Fashion Incubator, Chicago native Kate Coxworth, the 27-year-old designer of the Kate Boggiano clothing line, moved her inventory from the 11th floor of Macy’s to Pilsen. Now a studio and retail space, Kate Boggiano (2150 Canal Port Ave., Suite 3A3; 866-388-3501, kateboggiano.com) opened earlier this month and carries a line of shirts, tops, and blouses that focuses on…
Accessible Art
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In our January issue we did a story about alternative venues for buying art. I just heard there’s a new source online called UGallery that features work by art students—including some from Columbia College and the School of the Art Institute of Chicago—ranging in prices from $20 to S5,000. The offerings are very well organized by categories such as price, size, and color, and aside from a painting of Angelina Jolie, which struck me as slightly odd, the selection is pretty good (a “curator panel” reviews applications and accepts about 25 percent of applicants). Shown above, “River Rocks,” a photograph, $70, by Jenn Bomar, Michigan State University.
—Gina Bazer
Testing . . . Testing
Would loosening Illinois eavesdropping laws curb political corruption?
First Class
A runway show celebrates 75 years of student fashion in Chicago
The Blip
Bright spots on the month’s cultural radar
Who Makes What
Our 2009 survey of salaries around the city and beyond
Elephants Are Jerks
We went to an Elephant Camp today, which is basically a part of a jungle where industrious Thais have trained unlucky elephants to cozy up to tourists. Or at least not kill them. Apparently, these Dumbos have been domesticated enough to dull their natural instinct to trample us to death, and they all look vaguely depressed about their fate—though not enough to…
Weekend Photos: St. Pat’s at O’Donovan’s
Revelers in green flooded area bars all weekend long to celebrate the patron saint of Ireland, and O’Donovan’s (2100 W. Irving Park) was no exception. On Sunday, the Northwest Side bar chartered a bus down to the South Side Irish Parade, embarking at 10:30 a.m. and dropping off parade-goers back at the bar at 5 p.m.—for even more drinking and celebrating. We caught up with some folks who kept the party going post-parade…
Puzzled
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Maya Romanoff’s newest design, Puzzle, is the third pattern in the David Rockwell for Maya Romanoff Collection. It consists of hand-dyed paper that resembles fine lacquered leather, which forms the backdrop for a curvilinear tone-on-tone jigsaw pattern.
—JAN PARR