Meet Gnat Rosa Madrid, Chicago-based artist, designer, and creator of a collection of femme-centric fetish and bondage gear labeled ‘GNAT.’ Gnat got started designing femme-centric fetish wear while she was…
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It’s Questionable Internet Opinions! We sit down with the impossible to duplicate Joshua Louis Smith to talk the Alabama Election, bridging the urban and the rural, how to pronounce Turandot…
Last night Opera on Tap Chicago premiered its first annual Diva-Off, a competition-themed night of arias and singing with Drag King and Queen judges. “It is probably one of the…
We sit down with Al Kassouf to talk about her upcoming movement workshop, cultivating a language for a very not linguistically driven activity, Goulashes, and at the end of the…
Hi, my name is Anne, I’m a nice Jewish girl from New Jersey, and for the record, I don’t hate Christmas. That said, every year I begin experiencing Christmas fatigue…
We sit down with Andre Vasquez from Reclaim Chicago to talk about the learning curve of city politics, parallels between organizing as an artist and as an activist, Aldermanic campaigns,…
Early Saturday mornings at BOT Bakery customers are greeted by fresh flowers on tables, a handwritten menu featuring weekend specials in blue marker, and a smiling figurine robot under a…
We sit down with urban planner and local neighborhood historian Vitaliy Vladimirov to talk about Uptown and Asia on Argyle, Development without Displacement, Where Urban Planning and Art Meet, and…
On November 27th Uptown saw an addition of a coffee shop in an area that had been lacking one for a while. The area, dubbed Asia on Argyle, is home…
We sit down with Alexandra Plattos Sulack, Angela Torres, and Amanda Noelle Neal to talk The Distant Flight of Birds and Other Works, the badass feminist collective vanguard that is…
Few stories are as beloved and familiar to audiences as Dickens’ A Christmas Carol. When a theater company tackles a show so well known, a question it always asks itself…
On Monday, 35th Ward Alderman Carlos Ramirez-Rosa officially registered his campaign for Congress after Rep. Luis Gutiérrez announced he won’t seek reelection. Rosa, who has been on the radar of local politics…