• Enjoy an intimate home-cooked meal with RICE

    Enjoy an intimate home-cooked meal with RICE
    I was served up RICE—an art collective and curated meal series celebrating South Asian cuisine—by the magic of the Instagram algorithm. After being gifted a copy of food columnist Meera Sodha’s cookbook Made in India, I went down a social media rabbit hole of Indian cooking videos. Up popped one of RICE’s posts on my Explore […]
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  • As It Always Was

    As It Always Was
    By Casey Cereceda
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  • Influential folk singer Jo Mapes deserved better from the business

    Influential folk singer Jo Mapes deserved better from the business
    Sometimes I have to play the long game to get an artist’s story for the Secret History of Chicago Music. In 2011, when I got the itch to write about generation-bridging folk singer Jo Mapes, I couldn’t find much info—and my attempts to reach her online failed. I shelved the idea. Last month, I was […]
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  • Eiren Caffall on crossing artificial barriers

    Eiren Caffall on crossing artificial barriers
    The Mourner’s Bestiary, the debut memoir of Chicago-based author and musician Eiren Caffall, weaves a complex tapestry. It details Caffall’s harrowing experience with polycystic kidney disease (PKD), environmental collapse in the Gulf of Maine and Long Island Sound (landscapes from her childhood), and parenting as a single mom of a child who may or may […]
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