From Istanbul’s sesame-crusted simit to the blessed ring breads of Umbria—a meditation on how the shape of bread carries memory across continents and generations.
Jessamine Chan, author of the New York Times bestseller The School for Good Mothers, reflects on four residencies at Ragdale—the Lake Forest arts retreat celebrating its 50th anniversary.
Linen is older than cotton, stronger than silk, and kinder to the earth than almost any fabric we know. Jill Lowe traces its journey from flax fields in Belgium and Ireland to the closets and runways of the world.
Nearly one in five Chicago households faces food insecurity. Intern Jen Huang visits the Greater Chicago Food Depository to see firsthand how 80-plus vehicles, a hydroponics lab, and thousands of volunteers keep the city fed.
Founded in Chicago in 1976, Natya Dance Theatre has spent five decades preserving and reimagining Bharatanatyam—the classical dance tradition of India—for audiences around the world.
Chandler Burr, Linda Levy, and Camille Goutal headline the Alliance Française de Chicago’s 24th Symposium on the Arts of France—a three-part exploration of fragrance as art.
A Chicago writer visits Fondazione Prada Milan and discovers a labyrinthian world of Robert Gober, Louise Bourgeois, and Walter De Maria’s unforgettable Bel Air Trilogy.
After many years of starts and stops, Chicago fashion is on the rise. A look inside The Curio’s stylist panel at The Emily Hotel.
Pure Gold: 1972 Olympic Basketball, Lyric Opera, Antibes, About the Town, Maria Félix, IWA Women Extraordinaire, Messages in Wood, and more.
Tiffany at the Driehaus Museum, Backgammon Club, An Island Idyll, Marwen, Landmarks Illinois, American Writers Museum, Fashion Trends, and more.
Jessie Mueller, Chicago Chamber Music Society, Lake Forest High School, Two Sisters and a Piano, Pokémon Fossil Museum, Kanuga, and more.
Les Années Folles de Coco Chanel, Little Village, Philadelphia Story, Honey Child, Anti-Cruelty’s 127th Birthday, and more.
