The silver lining encircling the world’s current health emergency may be whisper thin, but it does exist and reveals itself in the most unlikely ways. One of them is the Battery Dance Festival (BDF) 2020. It’s a New York thing and because it’s so unusual and so specific to location, you’ve likely never heard of …
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With the eyes of the world looking so anxiously toward the future, a chance to catch some telling glimpses of the past can prove surprisingly therapeutic; as well as add some perspective to the tension filling so many of our current days. Last year, the Chicago History Museum made a momentous acquisition that, today, lets …
Five months into a health crisis that’s reshaped the quality of life around the world and the dining scene still isn’t looking the best. Restaurants have reopened with limited inside seating and; especially in the posher parts of town, doing as much al fresco as they can muster. Not as profitable as seated dining with …
With the torrent of the love raining on Beyoncé’s latest triumph, Black is King, few linger on the message filling nearly every minute of her paean to Black identity. “We have always been wonderful”, a lyric from one of the album’s songs, summarizes that message nicely. Black is King is the visual and musical odyssey …
Dance for Life, Chicago’s annual blowout dance extravaganza, was conceived by Chicago Dancers United (CDU) nearly three decades ago in the wake of another frightful contagion. Much more specific in its impact, the AIDs epidemic could be considered even more devastating than our current crisis because its diagnosis, before the development of any viable treatment, …