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- Best of Chicago, Food & Drink Mar 17, 2021
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Instagram takeovers
Social media pop-ups kept the Chicago food scene looking delicious.
- Music, Gossip Wolf Feb 16, 2021
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Jessica Risker combines her two loves with the podcast Music Therapy
Plus: Shoegaze band Diagonal release a spacey new album, and footwork crew the Era drop a dreamy rap single.
- City Life, Shop Local Jan 20, 2021
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Thrifting from home
Support local secondhand shoppers without stepping foot outside.
- Arts & Culture, Feature Jan 5, 2021
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Keep in touch with More Postcards Please
The online project is an interactive time capsule for our moment.
- Music, The Listener Dec 7, 2020
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Daniel Knox’s new single holds up a mirror to a year of unraveling
“Fall Apart” will appear on his next album, Won’t You Take Me With You, due in January.
- City Life, Public Service Announcement Nov 27, 2020
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Mutual aid networks help keep us warm
Upcoming events and distractions from our listings coordinator
- Arts & Culture, Feature Jul 6, 2020
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#iPlan2Live takes over TikTok
Kale Williams initiates an online movement celebrating Black softness and purpose.
- Arts & Culture, Feature Jun 25, 2020
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Finding love on Instagram Live
Media broadcasting network COVIDtv takes on dating.
- Columns & Opinion, Savage Love Jun 10, 2020
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On lurking and sex buddies during a pandemic
Answers to quickies in quarantine
- Arts & Culture, Art Feature Jun 2, 2020
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Inside the intricate worlds of Polly Pocket
An interview with collector and Instagrammer Julia Carusillo
- Music, Music Review May 1, 2020
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Kris Esfandiari of King Woman and producer Darcy Baylis combine forces in Sugar High
- Arts & Culture, Comedy Apr 14, 2020
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Lane Moore knows How to Be Alone
The author and comedian shares her techniques while also bringing people together with a daily livestream.
- Arts & Culture, Art Feature Jan 14, 2020
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Blood, ink, and tears
Tattooing is still dominated by white men, but women, nonbinary people, and people of color are making their mark.
- News & Politics, Feature Dec 20, 2019
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Communing with cannabis—underground
Even with legalization right around the corner, these women of color in Chicago feel safest creating spaces for weed-infused activities on their own terms.
- Music, Concert Preview Sep 12, 2019
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Wolf Eyes are experimental music’s most prolific act—and most prolific meme makers
- Food & Drink, Food & Drink Feature Sep 4, 2019
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Eat Free Pizza spreads the oven-fired word
An enterprising trio turns to Instagram to perfect their pies for the hungry masses.
- City Life, Pets Issue Aug 7, 2019
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Cat lovers and weirdos welcome
The Catcade’s Instagram is not your average animal rescue account.
- Film, Film Issue May 9, 2019
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Silver screen influencers
Hollywood costumers changed Chicago wardrobes.
- Arts & Culture, Lit Feature Apr 9, 2019
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Meltdown at Pitchfork
An excerpt from Music to My Eyes
- Columns & Opinion, Savage Love Oct 10, 2018
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‘Help, I'm a real-life 47-year-old virgin!’
Dan offers advice for losing it in middle age, handling potentially destructive secrets, and more.
- Blogs, Bleader Aug 7, 2018
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Meet Kidd Kenn, Chicago’s hottest openly gay 15-year-old rapper
Kidd is unapologetic about who he is—so of course he has a cosign from Queen Key.
- Blogs, Bleader Jul 30, 2018
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Everyone's a sucker at a new kind of traveling circus—the Instagram trap
At Happy Place, 29Rooms, and a new wave of pop-up museums you can pay $30+ for great Instagrams—and not much else.
- Blogs, Bleader Apr 9, 2018
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Unexpected April snowfall brings out the best of Chicago on Instagram
Chicagoans show Mother Nature: we are not afraid.
- Columns & Opinion, Savage Love Feb 28, 2018
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‘Should I be worried about STDs from oral sex?’
And other no-brainers from the slush pile
- Blogs, Bleader Feb 27, 2018
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Indiana fashion student Jason Bell Jr. rocks a ‘dapper grandpa’ look
The 19-year-old entrepreneur is also a founder of the streetwear brand Urban Genius.