Stephanie Izard on Girl & the Goat, "Top Chef," and more

By Cassie Walker

STEPHANIE IZARD, INC.: In the two years since the curly-haired Chicago chef won a TV reality show, she has managed to turn her 15 minutes of fame into the launching pad for a celebrity brand. Her $1.5-million, 130-seat restaurant in the West Loop is racing to open next month. Will the crowds come? Read more

Five Things You'll Notice about Girl & the Goat

By Cassie Walker

The design directive: the words “quirky,” “rustic,” and “badass.” With those marching orders, the Chicago-based design firm 555 helped incorporate the following elements. Read more

2010 Green Awards: Sarah Elizabeth Ippel

By Cassie Walker

THE NURTURER // Academy for Global Citizenship Read more

Cesar Corrales Nails the Opening Night of 'Billy Elliot the Musical'

By Cassie Walker

Two-and-a-half hours into Billy Elliot, the Elton John-composed musical that just opened its run at the Ford Center for the Performing Arts/Oriental Theatre, the star of the show—who's 13, mind you—has to pull off a finale sequence of 16 grande pirouettes followed by a series of passé pirouettes... Read more

The women behind "Undateable: 311 Things Guys Do That Guarantee They Won't Be Dating or Having Sex"

By Cassie Walker

For their new book, out March 16th, the Chicago residents Anne Coyle and Ellen Rakieten polled more than 100 women about things men do that turn women off. Spanning minor offenses (pleated pants) to major transgressions (spray tans and Speedos), the book has inspired a five-part VH1 series of the same name, which premieres in April Read more

Nick Cave Previews the SAIC 2010 Fashion Show Over Fancy Lunch

By Cassie Walker

Last week, I put on my go-to luncheon outfit and went to lunch at Terzo Piano with Nick Cave, the head of the School of the Art Institute of Chicago's Fashion Design Department, and Wellington "Duke" Reiter, the president of the school... Read more

Philip Seymour Hoffman in Chicago for The Long Red Road at the Goodman

By Cassie Walker

Back in Chicago, backstage Read more

On artist and screen printer Jay Ryan

By Cassie Walker

SCREEN GEM: With a new book out and a seemingly endless reservoir of ideas, the artist and screen printer Jay Ryan draws worldwide acclaim from his Skokie studio Read more

Action Figures: Chicagoans of the Year 2009

By Esther Kang, Graham Meyer, Bryan Smith, Cassie Walker, and Jennifer Wehunt

A jazz musician, a Holocaust survivor, a horsewoman, an architectural detective, and two grieving parents—our heroes this past year Read more

About Face: Makeup artist Hillary Fenton shares tips

By Cassie Walker

Six products. Two radically different looks. The makeup artist Hillary Fenton shares her tips for achieving a fashionable face without breaking the bank Read more

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