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Volumes Bookcafe fosters community through books and beverages

Llani Froeber, May 27, 2025May 27, 2025

Large windows overlooking the street beam sunlight onto exposed brick walls lined with bookshelves at…

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Arts & Culture Dan Sinker. Photo by Daniel X O'Neil.

Punk Planet and Dan Sinker, 30 years later

Trinity Balboa, November 16, 2024November 16, 2024

At the age of 19, no one expects to start a major magazine that has…

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A Conversation With

A conversation with: Head clerk of a Chicago Public Library, Vida Baleckaitis  

Chicago Talks, May 16, 2023May 15, 2023

Vida Veronica Baleckaitis, born and raised in Chicago, is the head clerk at the Garfield…

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Books

Volumes Bookcafe in Wicker Park reopens for book sales and latte art

Chicago Talks, October 28, 2022November 10, 2022

Getting back into the rhythm of opening a bookstore has been physically and mentally hard…

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Books

Former Chicago Tribune reporter turned author, releases memoir: ‘Three Girls from Bronzeville’

Chicago Talks, April 6, 2022April 6, 2022

For somebody to move forward in their life, they must first go backwards by looking…

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Arts and Culture

Vee L. Harrison uses journalism skills to help heal the hood

Chicago Talks, March 16, 2022March 18, 2022

Editor’s note: The following six stories were written by College News Workshops students at Columbia…

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A Conversation With

A conversation with: The Book Table co-owner Rachel Weaver

Chicago Talks, October 28, 2019October 22, 2020

Rachel Weaver and her husband Jason Smith said that instead of having a baby, they…

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Books

‘Happily Everly After’: The story of a little girl living with a heart defect

Chicago Talks, October 15, 2019October 15, 2019

It is not often that a 2-year-old gets to write a book about their life…

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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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