J. Michael Bailey stirred the hornet’s nest with a live sex demonstration after a session of his Human Sexuality class. The incident has been lousy with coverage, but reasoned discussion has been hard to find. Here’s where to go to find it.
ABC7’s Chuck Goudie reported Wednesday the possibility of a coming together between the Jewish community and the Nation of Islam’s Minister Louis Farrakhan. “The Anti-Defamation League seems open to a meeting with Farrakhan and Chicago mayor-elect Emanuel,” Goudie said. The ADL’s regional director, Lonnie Nasatir, said that’s not so. Nasatir told me today…
STARGAZING: Chicago’s beloved performance collective is back with several shows
When I was in Los Angeles earlier this week for the Design Bloggers Conference, I stopped in OK, a charming design store on 3rd Avenue…
POCKET GUIDE: A cultural short-list for March, in order of buzz
In a speech at Wheaton College, the lame-duck mayor (that feels really weird to say) blasts our country of whiners for its incivility.
The fashion and home design worlds often swing in the same circles, and there’s a stylish meeting-of-the-minds event coming up this month at the Alexis Bittar jewelry and accessories store in Bucktown that I’m pretty excited about.
One of the big political players in the aldermanic races, and the runoffs to come, is a political action committee with virtually no public donors and only a handful of specific policy preferences. Is it progressive? Centrist? Conservative? Or do we even have the right framework to describe it?
After closing her boutique in 2010, the Geoffrey Beene-trained designer–who’s dressed both Oprah and Michelle Obama–is back as a creative director for the 80-year-old Chicago-based retailer.
List Price: $1.299 million
The Property: With its conservative brick and limestone façade, this house—in one of my favorite neighborhoods, the Holstein Park section of northwest Bucktown—doesn’t try to dominate its older neighbors…
