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Spring has sprung at the Macy’s Flower Show

Chicago Talks, April 5, 2019April 17, 2019

Spring has officially gone into session: The Walnut Room on the seventh floor of Macy’s…

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Exhibit examines Underground Railroad in different light

Chicago Talks, March 30, 2019April 23, 2019

At first glance, the exhibit inside Chicago’s Art Institute is a gallery full of identical…

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Islamic calligraphy: a dying art?

Chicago Talks, January 28, 2019January 28, 2019

Zeeshan Farooq, a product manager by day and Islamic calligrapher by night, never thought his…

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Project Onward Provides Space for Artists with Disabilities

Chicago Talks, June 5, 2017July 25, 2018

Project Onward started in the summer of 2004 as a Gallery 37 pilot initiative for…

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A Brayzillian Savannah

Chicago Talks, April 28, 2017

When makeup artist Brayzill Stevenson, 33, was just eight-years-old, he decided that painting the half-renovated…

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ART WORKS brings social justice art to River North

Chicago Talks, January 11, 2017

Outside, quotes of justice from Rosa Parks, Martin Luther King, Jr. and Abraham Lincoln line…

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Lincoln Square printmakers make, display, educate on art

Chicago Talks, January 7, 2017

As patrons enter the doors of Lincoln Square’s Chicago Printmakers Collaborative, they are welcomed by…

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Museum exhibit showcase environmental activism, artistry

Chicago Talks, September 12, 2016

  Terry Evans still remembers the day when she saw a woman’s hand turning “greasy…

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Opinion

  • Chicago’s influential music scene doesn’t get the respect it deserves 
    by Zoey Hill-Hernandez
  • Lost in translation: ‘I would see everyone else writing while I just stared blankly at my paper’
    by Cynthia Alaniz
  • ‘It felt like something was gnawing at my heart’; Columbia student copes with illness of a lifetime
    by Morgan Bruner
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Arts and Culture

  • 23 years later, Mazzy Star’s masterpiece album still casts a spell
    by Triniti Waxman
  • Queer Chicago designer finds niche dressing drag performers
    by Seng Xiong
  • From dorm room to mainstage, Phat Dragon built a comedy cult following 
    by Ava Simone Forster
  • Great Ideas of Humanity exhibit showcases famous quotes made visual 
    by Sh'Mara Chism
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Feature

  • Hairstylist helps clients embrace their own beauty, rather than copy someone else’s 
  • Care for Real food pantry serves North Siders as need grows 
  • Cuddle Bunny: Where visitors can chill out with a furry friend 
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