Best MoviePass Substitute for Film Snobs
If you’re the type eager to see the 1994 lesbian dramedy Go Fish one night and the 2023 Spanish coming-of-age film 20,000 Species of Bees another, then you already know...
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Best Trash-to-Treasure Pipeline
If you’ve decided to take up sewing or try making stained glass, don’t head to Blick or Joann or — God forbid — Hobby Lobby. The WasteShed, a nonprofit with locations in Humboldt Park...
After years of development, Wild Onion Market co-op opens in Rogers Park
After more than a decade of development, planning, fundraising and construction, Rogers Park finally has its own cooperative grocery store.
Bodies of Work
A new Art Institute show aims to contextualize the feminine forms of the late Christina Ramberg.
Marking Her Words
Maryam Taghavi’s MCA show explores the limits of language.
Best Short-Form Podcast
This Is Chicago It’s fitting that this new weekly podcast begins each episode with the rumble of the L and the ding-dong of its arrival. After all, the show, produced...
The Books of Summer
From sci-fi to scandal, here are eight titles we are eager to devour — all by authors with Chicago connections.
Inside Chicago’s microbakery boom: Sifting through inflation and Instagram to make enough dough
A foreboding Instagram post in June warned of Half Birthday's demise. "Sign up for a cake before I pass away," the Chicago-based microbakery advised, captioning a photo of a white...
The Barber of Chicago
Lyric Opera’s The Factotum reframes Rossini for the South Side.
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