Spring Jalapeño Herb Sauce

Sequins and Stripes 4/18 10:00P Liz

Most nights our dinners are boring. I wish I could say that I whip up these elaborate meals for my family but we usually stick with protein and veggies and sometimes rice/starch. I m a huge fan of a...

Reset your mind with cherry blossoms

Chicago Reader (Style) 4/16 7:55A Salem Collo-Julin

Upcoming events and recommendations from our listings coordinator Where are some Chicago places that you go when you just need to get out of the house and get a change of scenery? When things are...

Silent senses

Chicago Reader (Style) 4/16 5:40A Molly Schemper

For some the long-haul COVID-19 loss of taste and smell is more than an inconvenience—it’s a loss of livelihood. In January 2020, I was the owner of a highly respected catering company, FIG Catering....

My Favorites from the Sephora Spring Sale

Sequins and Stripes 4/16 1:49A Liz

Shop this image : Green Clean Makeup Removing Cleansing Balm // ILIA Limitless Lash Lengthening Mascara // ILIA True Skin Serum Concealer // Sunday Riley A+ Retinol Serum // Sunday Riley Good Genes...

Damon Locks & Black Monument Ensemble’s Now is an essential album of the moment

Chicago Reader (Style) 4/16 1:00A Hannah Edgar

Flipping through television channels. Flicking through radio stations.…

Matches

Chicago Reader (Style) 4/15 11:00A

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Hands up, don’t shoot

Chicago Reader (Style) 4/15 10:00A Adam M. Rhodes

Video released Thursday shows that 13-year-old Adam Toledo was unarmed and raising his hands when he was killed by police. The city's Civilian Office of Police Accountability on Thursday released...

Mercury Theater rises from the dead

Chicago Reader (Style) 4/15 8:40A Kerry Reid

The Southport corridor venue gets new life and new leadership. Retractions generally aren't fun for journalists. But the announcement last week that Mercury Theater Chicago isn't dead after all makes...

Chicago Magazine Editorial Internships

Chicago Magazine 4/15 7:53A Emily Johnson

Chicago magazine s editorial department seeks motivated, enthusiastic college graduates for help with fact checking, story research, interview transcription, and some administrative tasks. Interns are also encouraged to pitch ideas and write for...

When I Think Of You

Chicago Reader (Style) 4/15 7:00A Rocío Franco

By the numbers

Chicago Reader (Style) 4/15 5:10A Adam M. Rhodes

A local nonprofit, Lighthouse Foundation, is surveying some of the city’s largest LGBTQ+ institutions and will be grading them on just how far their diversity and inclusion goes. After cutting its...

Vivian McCall documents her transition on her life-affirming debut as Pansy

Chicago Reader (Style) 4/15 1:00A Leor Galil

Chicago multi-instrumentalist and recording engineer Vivian McCall helped turn Andrew Smith’s bedroom project, Jungle Green, into a bona fide six-piece band when she joined in 2017. Since they all...

Annie Saunders, veterinarian and founder of Punk House Chicago

Chicago Reader (Style) 4/15 1:00A Jamie Ludwig

“The focus is not as much on the bands as it is on communal life and the weird things you get up to when you’re making minimum wage and you’re bored.” Annie Saunders, 46, grew up in the Chicago area,...

Avner Landes’s Meiselman gets it right

Chicago Reader (Style) 4/14 7:35A Dmitry Samarov

Even though its titular character always does just the opposite Meiselman is put-upon. Everything and everyone in his world is bent on humiliating and belittling him, so he plots his revenge.…

The last men’s hotel

Chicago Reader (Style) 4/14 7:00A Katie Prout

For those who live there, the Ewing Annex Hotel is a refuge, an artifact, and a last chance. The man who’s been holding it together for more than 20 years is about to retire. When Mike Bush was 12,...