A Queer Content Creator Keeps the Holidays Gay
How a local social media personality helps queer Chicagoans find their spaces. (Plus her recommendations for the season.)
Custom Placements: Culture Lead
Disney in Hermosa and Common in Calumet: A Few Famous Folks Who Lived Here
Wherever you live in Chicago, someone famous once lived there, too. Here’s a list of the best known — or at least the most interesting — people to have inhabited our neighborhoods.
December Agenda
Top 10 reasons to fill up your calendar this month
Nathan Graham Stakes Out His Own Country
The singer-songwriter fuses blues, rock, Americana, and more on his new album, Saint of Second Chances.
No Quiet in the Library
As she ends her American Library Association term, Tracie D. Hall warns against efforts to hinder our access to books.
Top 5 Things We Just Learned About High Fidelity
A new book by Andrew Buss, Top Five: How High Fidelity Found Its Rhythm And Became a Cult Movie Classic takes a look at the original text by Nick Hornby, as well as its film and Hulu adaptations. Some of the best chapters focus on the movie, which was set in Chicago and required a … Read more
Inside the Wonderfully Strange Story of The Night Parade
In her beautiful and bizarre book The Night Parade: A Speculative Memoir, Chicago-area author Jami Nakamura Lin draws upon the folklore, monsters, and myths of her Japanese Taiwanese Okinawan American heritage to explode conventional narratives of mental illness and grief. Born in Chicago, Nakamura Lin grew up in Rolling Meadows, spent her 20s in Ravenswood … Read more