Katia Perez
Dogs on the South Side shouldn’t need to drive all over the city to get out more and exercise.”
BARCing up the Right Tree
Bronzeville dog owners are on a winding path to bringing a dog park to the South Side
Author: Christopher Good
Speaking Truth to Power
For twenty-one years, Dr. Lyn Hughes has been making black labor history visible in Pullman
Jasmin Liang
The National A. Philip Randolph Pullman Porter Museum, which sits across from Corliss High School on 104th and Maryland, occupies a unique space both citywide and nationwide. After twenty-one years in operation, it remains the only black history museum in the country to focus specifically on labor history.
Fugitive Dust
Dirty Energy at the MoCP
Terry Evans
In the middle of an empty room was a Plexiglas cube—and at the bottom of the cube, a fine sheet of black powder. An imaginary moonscape? An abandoned terrarium? Perhaps anticipating these questions, Beate Geissler and Oliver Sann, the Chicago-based artists behind the installation Prevailing Winds and Relative Distances, pasted several pages of text around the room.
So Much Noise To Be Heard
A review of Hieroglyphic Being’s "The Disco’s of Imhotep"
One of the most striking motifs found in The Disco’s of Imhotep, the newest album by Chicago musician Jamal Moss (stage name Hieroglyphic Being), isn’t musical at all: it’s a single word. “Kmt,” a simple anglicization of Egyptian hieroglyphs, is scattered throughout Moss’s discography. Here, it lends its name to “The Sound of KMT,” but earlier this year it served as the title for a collaborative album with his cousin Noleian Reusse in a project called Africans with Mainframes.
Disappearing Act
José Orduña's "The Weight of Shadows
In The Weight of Shadows, his first book, Orduña recounts a lifetime as the “other”.
Dude Off 59th
RP Boo on the past, present, and future of footwork
Ellen Hao
“You can’t walk aside no one’s body and ever think that you could be them.”
Room for Indeterminacy
Talking sales, weddings, and pizza with Alberto Aguilar
Forms of Communication, Alberto Aguilar
“That was the most pizza we’ve ever eaten in our lives.”
The Past Keeps Happening
Suspending disbelief with filmmaker Christopher Harris
Courtesy of Christopher Harris
But the woman on the screen locks eyes with the audience—whispering that things are “partially true, and therefore totally false”—before her figure is duplicated, flipped upside-down, and inverted like a photographic negative.
When the Gates Swing Open
Looking back at the life of Otis Clay
Ellen Hao
On January 16, Liberty Baptist Church was packed shoulder-to-shoulder. Under the stained-glass windows, churchgoers swayed back and forth, singing along to “When the Gates Swing Open”—but with one notable absence. Otis Clay, who for decades had sung the very same song from the pulpit, was now in a casket.
Room Music
yyu on fire alarms, artistic independence, and the letter 'y'
Juliet Eldred
“Nowadays, I just hide where I can hide.”