February/March 2025 Issue: 39th Anniversary Issue (Print Edition)

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In the Arena

Lou Raizin on Team Culture’s visions for the future of Downtown Chicago

"Lou Raizin has a big idea. It’s not the first time. The impresario, who leads Broadway in Chicago, was a catalyst in the creation of Millennium Park, and before that, the Loop Theater District. Lou’s big idea is to create cultural projects in and around the Loop. Many of them. " (Todd Hieggelke)

+ City on the Remake: A selection of Team Culture's proposals

+ Second Wind: Reimagining downtown's shopping streets

Throwing Architecture a Curve

Rediscovering Félix Candela’s Years in Chicago

"Félix Candela, the exiled Spaniard whose long, innovative career building improbably curvy, thin-shelled concrete buildings in Mexico and elsewhere put him in the pantheon of the twentieth century’s most influential architects, lived, worked and taught in Chicago from 1971 to 1978. It’s a period of his otherwise often-dissected and celebrated life that until recently was all but forgotten. It’s a cruel, odd amnesia in a city whose identity is so tied to superstar architects and structural engineers." (Ted C. Fishman)

Heave Ho, Status Quo

The story of Laurence Booth, Chicago's most famous unsung architect

"Booth, it turns out, seems to be present at most of the architectural moments of the last fifty years, a Zelig of the modern-day ziggurat. His creative work runs the gamut of building types and styles, from restoration to from-the-ground-up homes and high-rises. The mild-mannered Booth, who could pass for a banker—or a lawyer like his father—is a rebel, but his enemy is dogma, not style. In fact, you might argue that his varied body of work, absent any signature style, is itself a rebellion against the modern-day culture of the starchitects and their reputation for prioritizing form over function." (Brian Hieggelke)

Making the Games

The story of Cadaco, a Chicago toy company that created epic tabletop sports contests — and turned the life of Martin Luther King, Jr. into a competition

"We were lost in the weeds of pre-teen suburbia, looking for any connection to the real Chicago. The cul-de-sac in front of our ranch house became a repetitive metaphor. How many times could we eat steakburgers at Cock Robin? So we played the All-Star Baseball board game in our basements. We picked teams of major league all-stars. Game players would spin a tiny metal arrow over a disc to see if the all-star hit a home run or made an out. It was not like spin-the-bottle and we still didn’t meet any girls." (Dave Hoekstra)

Keeping It Clean

How one woman helps Chicago’s restaurants, airports and homes stay free of pests

"My first contact with Rebecca Fyffe was through the food community. I read her posts online about great Chicago-area restaurants, met her at food events, saw her photos on Facebook of great meals she had prepared at home. But in time, I learned that Fyffe’s connection to the world of food went beyond what was visible within the food-fan milieu. There is a food-focused family history, but then there is her job. Fyffe is the CEO of Landmark Pest Management, and if you live in the Chicago area, you’ve benefited from her craft—especially if you enjoy eating out." (Cynthia Clampitt)

Art in Brazil

A Guide for Collectors, Curators and the Curious

MASP's Massive Rebirth: Lina Bo Bardi's masterpiece gets a companion 

Humanity As A Practice: Curator Bonaventure Ndikung discusses the upcoming Thirty-Sixth São Paulo Biennial
+ A Nation of Biennials

Street Art Serenade: São Paulo is a canvas of cultural exploration

Rooms For Art: Discovering "The Many Brazils" at Rosewood São Paulo with curator Marc Pottier

+ Hotels for Art Lovers

Constantly Upcycling: Paula Rondon and B.Luxo offer the coolest one-of-a-kind couture

Let's Give It A Try. Why Not?: How Fernanda Feitosa started South America's largest art fair and keeps SP-Arte thriving after more than twenty years

+ Art Fairs in São Paulo and Beyond

Keep Posting Low: Live Among the Art in Rio de Janeiro

The Art Geography of São Paulo

Art Paradises: Excursions from São Paulo for Sensory Delights

A Perfect Ten: A Decade of Artist Interviews

Arts & Culture

Art: Deb Sokolow's "Speculative Drawing”

Dance: Kelly Anderson Dance Theatre has the humor Rx

Design: The legacy of immigrant printing in Chicago

+ Mood: Blankets and Throws

Film: Remembering the memory of movies

Lit: Anna Kornbluh on “Immediacy” one year later

Music: The return of Horsegirl

Stage: Lookingglass is theater's Comeback Kid

Reviews

Here's a taste of what the universe has to offer

Poetry

"jambalaya”: A new poem by Ed Roberson

148 Pages

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