ianca Betancourt, founder and editor-in-chief of CIRCUS Magazine, sits in the magazineâs 18th Street storefront. A neon CIRCUS logo casts her curls in electric blue light while Cherokee, her eight-year-old German Shepherd, greets passersby with howls. CIRCUS, which aims to cover âthe trending and the undiscovered,â is based in Pilsen but has a large readership […]
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The Lit Issue 2017
he cover of our fourth annual Lit Issue offers a sort of visual game to its reader: can you reconstruct the original photo, before it became collage? Say, is that the cover of a book by Albert Camus? Whatâs with those books repeating in the top corner? Itâs not really a game youâre meant to […]
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From the Mixed-Up Zine Shelves of Build Coffee
Build Coffeeâopened this summer by two former South Side Weekly editorsâis a coffee shop and bookstore directly next door to the Weekly office in the Experimental Station. They stock a mix of used and new books, including a wall of mostly-local zines, chapbooks, comics, and artist books. The following pages, chosen with great neighborly affection, […]
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Notes & Calendar 5/2/17
A weekâs worth of developing stories, events, and signs of the times, culled from the desks, inboxes, and wandering eyes of the editors Notes BBB to CC It is difficult to know exactly how one should feel upon learning that Mayor Emanuelâs third CPS CEO, Barbara Byrd-Bennett, has been sentenced to four and a half […]
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Comics Issue 2016
Welcome to the South Side Weeklyâs second annual Comics Issue. In the past, the Weekly has published profiles of South Side artists, musicians, and activists, stories about political events and community gatherings, and even recipes from local food institutionsâall in comic form. This issue, chock-full of words and pictures about life on the South Side […]
Story Lines
Join South Side Weekly and the Illustrated Press at Cultura in Pilsen to celebrate the opening of Story Lines, a gallery show of comics journalism pieces from and about the South Side. Featuring completed works and process sketches by Darryl Holliday, Erik Rodriguez, Jamie Hibdon, Carlos Mattalana, Javier Suarez, Jean Cochrane, Bea Malsky, Maha Ahmed […]
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Five New Aldermen from the South Side
Get familiar with them and their stances; the longest- serving alderman on Chicago City Council was elected more than a half-century ago, so Chicago could be dealing with these new aldermen for a very long time.
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Mayoral Face Off
Emanuel told the audience it was like âbeing at the dinner table with three teenagers.â