Searching for Ms. Miller
Delving into Chicago’s past, the author picked up the trail of a forgotten literary light whose life uncannily paralleled their own.
Contributors: Hannah Edgar
Walking Chicago With Robert Loerzel
A new book offers guides to 35 urban trails around the city. We walked the author’s hometown route.
Listening to Primous Fountain
Fifty years ago, a self-taught composer from the Ida B. Wells Homes exploded the staid world of classical music. Now, at 70, he’s trying to beat the odds and do it again.
Chicago DIY Artists Just Dropped an Album for Charity
Released by Why? Records, Art Is Love, Vol. 1 compiles unreleased demos and tracks produced in quarantine.
Chicago’s By-Hospitality, For-Hospitality Relief Fund
How three drink professionals raised more than $17,000 for out-of-work staff in their industry
Chicago Was Christina Chaey’s Test Kitchen
Before she was a staple of Bon Appétit’s obsessively watched YouTube channel, the Northwestern grad and formerChicago intern hung at Hopleaf, Big Star, and the Publican.
The Six-Hour Experimental Opera Happening on Zoom
On Tuesday night, more than 250 performers will participate in Full Pink Moon, a streamed version of an opera by composer Pauline Oliveros.
Cameron Esposito Learns You Can't Always Save Yourself
On tending an ill partner, taking her book tour online, and Zoom trolls
Alex Temple Makes Music out of Dream Logic
The composer of Behind the Wallpaper on David Lynch, her love affair with the surreal, and suburbia’s shadowy underbelly