In late Febraury, we sat down with Brandon Lee at South Facing Windows to hear Hotspot's origin story and later attended their special one-year anniversary show —which featured Kari Faux as the headliner and local acts SheGo Turbo, Yung Duro and DJ Fefenextdoor.
Read MoreThese Days visits Victor Internet’s old neighborhood as he talks about Victor's Debut and growing up with the internet.
Read More“Everything Must Go is an illustrated collection of poems in the spirit of a graphic novel, a collaboration between poet Kevin Coval and illustrator Langston Allston. The book celebrates Chicago’s Wicker Park in the late 1990’s, Coval’s home as a young artist, the ancestral neighborhood of his forebears, and a vibrant enclave populated by colorful characters. Allston’s illustrations honor the neighborhood as it once was, before gentrification remade it. The book excavates and mourns that which has been lost in transition and serves as a template for understanding the process of displacement and reinvention currently reshaping American cities." via Haymarket Books
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