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Author: South Side Weekly
Best of the South Side 2017
Vanessa Valadez
Welcome to this, the fifth annual Best of the South Side.
Best of the South Loop 2017
Best of Chicago Lawn & Gage Park 2017
Denise Naim
Shamar Hemphill is a senior organizer at the Inner-City Muslim Action Network (IMAN), a community organization based in Chicago Lawn. An Englewood native and Hyde Park resident, Hemphill has been working for IMAN for the past decade. IMAN’s work encompasses a dizzying array of initiatives—among them, a fully-staffed health center for low-income residents, weekly farmers markets and bimonthly open mics for youth, a “green reentry” program that trains recently incarcerated men in environmentally friendly construction skills, a summer music and arts festival, and lobbying for parole reform.
The Interview Issue 2017
Adelaido Olea
This Interview Issue, the fourth of its kind, contains eight interviews with artists, activists, writers, and residents of Chicago.
Calendar 9/6/17
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Notes & Calendar 8/16/17
A week’s worth of developing stories, events, and signs of the times, culled from the desks, inboxes, and wandering eyes of the editors
Calendar for 8/2/17
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The Lit Issue 2017
Jason Schumer, Ellen Hao
The 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? What’s with those books repeating in the top corner? It’s not really a game you’re meant to win: the artwork offers literature in motion, bringing history into our present—and onward, into our future.
From the Mixed-Up Zine Shelves of Build Coffee
The zine shelf at Build Coffee (Alex Jung)
Build Coffee—opened this summer by two former South Side Weekly editors—is 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, are excerpts from some of their favorite Chicago presses and artists on those shelves: Bigmouth Comix, Let It Sink, 7Vientos, Half Letter Press, Low Key Label, and Brown & Proud Press.