Chicago’s Overlooked Role in Integrating Baseball By Edward McClelland A new book highlights Chicago’s pivotal role in both upholding and breaking baseball’s color barrier. Here’s what we learned. Read more
Jazz Virtuoso Isaiah Collier Confronts Our Incendiary Times By Mark Bazer The 26-year-old multi-instrumentalist and composer packs his music full of urgent fury. Read more
Edward Gorey-Inspired Uncanny Attic Hits Steppenwolf By Web Behrens A is for Attic was adapted with verve by big Gorey fans with theatrical nerve. Read more
Author Mikki Kendall Knows the Power of Spite Interview by Mike Thomas The activist author, 48, on segregation’s upside and why Michelle Obama was wrong. Read more
The Chicago-centric Guide to Ski Travel By Nina Kokotas Hahn Chicago isn’t anyone’s idea of a skiers’ paradise. But with more direct flights than any other big city to top U.S. slope destinations, maybe it should be. Here, six new draws. Read more
R&B Star Tink Comes Into Her Own By Britt Julious No longer a prodigy, a rawer and deeper artist comes into her own. Read more
Sara Paretsky Speaks First, Counts the Bodies Second Interview by Mike Thomas The novelist, 77, on her protagonist inspirations, brass knuckles, and fear of being murdered. Read more
