Two Dresses You Need for Summer

Sequins and Stripes 6/24 9:00P Liz

Shop the post: Outfit 1: Cotton Weave Colorless Shirtdress (wearing a 2), Editor Slingback (size down 1/2 size) Outfit 2: Cotton Weave Picnic Dress (wearing a 2), Day Crossover Sandal (true to size)...

Metropolitan Brewing teams up with Pelican for the biere de garde Cold Hope

Chicago Reader (Style) 6/24 1:45P Philip Montoro

Beer and Metal returns to review a long-gestating collaboration by beloved Chicago institutions Pelican and Metropolitan Brewing. In summer 2012, my boss asked everybody in the Reader's editorial...

Gym to Street Thanks to These Products

Sequins and Stripes 6/22 2:09A Liz

Having a new found commitment to exercise means fitting it in wherever possible! Even if it is a 30 minute window between appointments or activities with the kids I always find time to carve out a...

How I Get My Beachy Waves

Sequins and Stripes 6/21 2:10A Liz

You ll notice here that the bottom half of my hair is a little crazy after having babies! Naturally super wavey and really coarse so I don t pay much attention to the bottom half of my head anymore...

With First Read 2019, the Syndicate hoped to transcend boundaries

Chicago Reader (Style) 6/20 9:09A Catey Sullivan

The theater company presented readings of three new one-acts by trans playwrights. You don't have to look further than this year's Tony Awards to see why we need festivals like the Syndicate's First...

Charlie’s Summer Challenge

Sequins and Stripes 6/20 9:05A Liz

Charlie loves to read. Since he was Jack’s age we would find him curled up in his chair reading book after book. Not that he could actually read the words but he would be so proud to flip through the...

Nobody’s business

Chicago Reader (Style) 6/20 7:30A Nico Lang

The push to make all single-stall public restrooms in Illinois gender-neutral Every time Angelina Nordstrom wanted to use the restroom, it took ten minutes to get there and ten minutes to get back.…

With the release of her second book, Bricks, Blood & Water, e nina jay discusses how poetry has...

Chicago Reader (Style) 6/20 6:53A Terrence F. Chappell

“Poetry is my language more so than who I am. If I could just do it all in poems, I would. If I could just talk to my friends and family in poems, I would.” Activist and poet e nina jay calls her new...

'Black women are everything'

Chicago Reader (Style) 6/20 1:00A Zakkiyyah Najeebah

Centering the voices and experiences of Black lesbians in Chicago I’ve lived in Chicago for almost ten years, have been active within queer communities, and have been identifying as a lesbian, but I...

P is for pride

Chicago Reader (Style) 6/20 1:00A Salem Collo-Julin

Chicago organizations that offer help, advice, and solidarity As a loyal Reader reader, you may already feel well versed in LGBTQIA issues. I'm hoping that the majority of you are at least an A (ally)...

Chicago Reader names editors in chief, theater and dance editor

Chicago Reader (Style) 6/20 1:00A

Karen Hawkins and Sujay Kumar have been appointed as permanent editors in chief of the weekly newspaper. Kerry Reid has also been hired to be the new full-time editor of the paper's theater and dance...

It's not about coffee at Café Antigua

Chicago Reader (Style) 6/20 1:00A Mike Sula

A snug snack shop across from the Guatemalan consulate offers a taste of Central America in Jefferson Park. Coffee is one of the reasons that more Guatemalans are caught trying to get into the United...

This year’s African Diaspora International Film Festival illuminates the experiences of Black people...

Chicago Reader (Style) 6/20 1:00A Kathleen Sachs

The lessons in these dozen films build on one another as the week goes on. The films in the 17th Annual African Diaspora International Film Festival do what much media and even the public school...

Flipper hit the road with David Yow: the original unhinged noise-rock band, fronted by the king of...

Chicago Reader (Style) 6/19 11:00P Luca Cimarusti

We live in a time where the unhinged, nothing-to-lose noise-rock front man is a punk-rock celebrity. But without Will Shatter and Bruce Loose of Flipper, the world never would’ve experienced the...

Nigerian juju and Afrobeat veteran Kaleta brings the groove with Super Yamba Band

Chicago Reader (Style) 6/19 11:00P Salem Collo-Julin

Leon “Kaleta” Ligan-Majek came into his talents in the early 80s—at exactly the right time to bridge two disparate genres of Nigerian music. Kaleta’s family relocated to Lagos from his native Benin...