Carving out space for funny girls in Wicker Park
By Carolyn Cakir Chicago is a mecca for comedy lovers and comedians. But many female comedians lament the fact that comedy is still very much
October 18, 2016
By Carolyn Cakir Chicago is a mecca for comedy lovers and comedians. But many female comedians lament the fact that comedy is still very much
By Shahzeb Ahmed The video starts with two hands raised in prayer. Soon, the hands are preparing a bomb. The man appears to don the
By Thaddeus Tukes [A version of the story was co-published on Blavity.] Jazz is the essence of black culture, yet for years, black musicians have
By Sarah Haas and Nia Prater The voting phenomenon widely known as the millennial “drop-off” may not hold to be entirely true for young people
By Jingzhe (Kelly) Wang One month before the presidential election, more than 50 Chinese Americans gathered in one of Chicago’s western suburbs to show their
By Jingzhe (Kelly) Wang Some young Chinese Americans are leaving Chicago’s Chinatown and their roots to assimilate with American culture. Not Nicholas Lau. The high
By Fariba Pajooh and Duke Omara Synolve Netterville was idealistic, motivated and ready to serve her country. Joining the military at 24-years-old fulfilled a carefully
By Nora Younkin It’s not every day that the cat circus comes to town. Samantha Martin and her cadre of cats hit the Vittum Theater
By Patricia Nabong Anastasia Kondrasheva was cycling to work on Damen Avenue when a flatbed truck driving on her left turned right as she was
By Nia Prater Students squeezed themselves onto couches placed around the room or sat knee-to-knee on the grey carpet in the main lounge of the