Mod Life

With mirrors from Hollywood’s golden age and pop-era lamps, this stylish modern mecca blows the dust off the concept of an “antique mart.”

Long Division

Four decades after it first appeared, Studs Terkel’s Division Street: America is being republished. The vigorous 93-year-old shares why the book still matters.

Six Questions For Bike Film Fest Guy

Starting Wednesday, the Bicycle Film Fest hits Chicago for four days of parties, races, scavenger hunts, and films galore. It’s a huge event in New York, Paris, Tokyo, and other cities, but in Chicago it hasn’t quite caught on. Coda talked to founder Brendt Barbur, who lives in Manhattan, about registering higher on the city’s culture meter this time around.