Third Coast Style
Eric Green The floor-length gowns and pleated jackets on mannequins sitting in the storefront provide a stark contrast to the barred windows of the liquor store next door. Away from the traffic of 18th...
View ArticleVintage Spirits
Dan Knispel Stevie Koerner and Dan Knispel walk into a bar. They both order the same drink: a whiskey ginger. “It was one of the first things we realized we both loved,” recalls Knispel of one of their...
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(Anna Fixsen) Adaeze Okorafor graduated from UIC with a degree in Bio-Engineering and a specialization in Prosthetics in 2010. She is now the founder of Dash Me—a Chicago-based company that hosts...
View ArticleBest of the South Side 2012
Jane Fentress Chicago is a city that boasts, and this is our contribution. Our half of the city—the South Side—is many things, and in our annual Best Of issue, we haven’t tried to solve the riddle of...
View ArticleStitchy and Patchy
Although I was there for Stitchy—a monthly(ish) stitching event at the Pilsen arts collaborative, residence, and gallery Roxaboxen—I was not sewing. Rather, I was helping Stitchy founder Anthony...
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