We sit down with Dawn Xiana Moon from Raks Geek to talk about what it means to be an artist in 2019, bellydance history, and how social justice conversations have…
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Pictured above: Marcela Torres/Photo: Jesse Meredith Alongside sex, violence occupies a singularly controversial position in art. Nearly every art critic of the 20th century, from Antonin Artaud to Susan Sontag,…
Pictured above: Actors rehearsing on a stage/Photo: Ruca Souza A friend of mine came into Chicago from out of town and asked me what plays were running while they were…
photo from the Metric Coffee facebook page On November 10, 2018 Scapi Magazine sat down with Xavier Alexander of Metric Coffee to talk espresso, the Chicago coffee scene, and building a strong coffee program. And we…
We sit down with Katya Lysander, Kristin Gourlay, and Sarah Abram from Ensemble Alioni to talk about all things Georgian folk music, tracking the identity of Georgia after the Soviet…
Pictured above: (l to r) Rory Zacher, Rob Frankel, Stephanie Mattos, and Myesha-Tiara in Swamp Baby/Photo: Shepsu Aakhu Lauren “LL” Lundy has only been with Chicago theatre mainstay MPAACT since…
Pictured above: Chicago Scratch branding/Logo design: Preston Choi Editor’s Note: This is an expression by Zach Barr in response to Chicago Scratch’s clean, in the form of a list; it is…
photo by Colin Davis Since the Polar Vortex, there has been a push being made by the organizers of Bring Chicago Home to move their resolution to introduce a one-time 4% tax…
We sit down with Ken Greene from FreeGeek Chicago to talk about the local non-profit that teaches people how to build computers, where you can get a computer for less…
On Tuesday, Chicago local artistic and political heavyweight Chance the Rapper made another endorsement announcement after endorsing Amara Enyia for mayor by posting on twitter about Hilario Dominguez in the…
Pictured above: Capture from Jen Kutner’s The Other/Photo: Micki Harris What does it mean to be in a relationship with technology? Her literalized this on screen, but the artists in…
photo from JB Pritzker’s facebook page Many have wanted to take newly appointed Illinois governor JB Pritzker to task for not being progressive enough now that he has sealed the governor’s seat, but it seems…