For dotCross’s first public outing with its Uncommon Funds, it served up two different blends of coffee for free in Common Knowledge Café.
Alexandra McInnis, Chicago Maroon
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With first pourover bar, dotCross hits the grounds running
Chicago Manual of Style | Second City chic
StyleChicago.com’s fashion show, “The Art of Fashion,” shows that local designers succeed when they hone in on the fashions most deliberately their own.
GastroConference takes a bite of Chicago’s food scene
EnvisionDo’s food fest, loaded with all-star panels, attracted foodies from far and near.
Chicago Manual of Style | White in the spring city
Spring dressing blooms in its own right.
Chicago Manual of Style | B by Alexander Wang
At only 29, Alexander Wang brings utility as well as style to a fashion house which, like many others, is looking to reclaim the glory of its “Golden Age.”
Chicago Manual of Style | Oscar the slouch?
As in real life, this year’s Oscars saw women mistaking “plain” for “classic.”
Off-Off stages economic collapse, minus the depression
Two veterans of the campus sketch comedy and improv group discuss their upcoming performance, “Great Moments in Financial History.”
Haute for show
At this year’s Paris Fashion Week, designers asked, What Would Coco Chanel Do (WWCCD)?
Jungen & Linklater at Logan
Two artists discuss Modest Livelihood, their current exhibit at the Logan Center.
Curtains for Wright’s flashy adaptation of Anna Karenina
In all the fuss over its lush single soundstage, Anna Karenina forgot its most important component: the complexity of its titular character.
Bond shaken and stirred, with a touch of gray
The incorrigible British Secret Service agent may be an aging globetrotter with low technological proficiency, but he’s far from retiring.
At Harris Theater, Lebowitz’s politics take no prisoners
The gloves come off when Fran Lebowitz brings her cultural criticism to the political arena.
English department casts verdict, doesn’t object to TV’s best
New English department panel series analyzes critically-acclaimed TV shows.
Tarn’s analytic approach to lyric poetry yields hopeful results
Multi-talented academic Nathaniel Tarn sees hope and liberation in poetry.
Love among the nuptial ruins
Marguerite Duras’s play ‘La Musica’ gets a claustrophobic interpretation at the Alliance Francaise.
Little-known surrealist finally gets a room of his own
Jindrich Heisler, surrealist painter, gets his first retrospective at the Art Institute.
UBallet performs lesser-known ‘La Bayadere’ to great success
UBallet’s performed ‘La Bayadere’ at Mandel Hall this past Saturday and Sunday.
Festival highlights Haiti on earthquake’s anniversary
Haitian festival commemorates anniversary of the earthquake with art exhibits and dance.
Lascivious Ball disrobes bookish stereotypes
At the Lascivious Ball this past Saturday, students shed their inhibitions.
UCMC sounds off in open forum with trauma center activists
Students, staff, and administrators had their first official dialogue regarding the lack of a trauma center at the University of Chicago Medical Center last night at an open forum hosted by SG.
Theophilus London dresses for success
While discussing Cannes, fashion, and The Police, it became apparent that London really is as cool as he sounds.
Six photographers play house at HPAC
No matter how unsightly or troubled, home is the unique epicenter of our lives, and there is no place quite like it.
