The American Craft Exposition is returning to Evanston’s Harry Crown Sports Pavilion on the Northwestern campus this weekend for the 27th time, and it’s a splendid opportunity to view fine handmade furniture, glassware, textile art, clothing, jewelry, and mixed-media pieces by more than 150 juried artists... Read more
The entire Chicago Home + Garden team has been pulling a lot of double shifts lately to get a hot new coffee-table book ready for the printers, and the fruits of their labor are about to pay off... Read more
We’ve applauded the imaginative and dramatic interiors that Gary Lee Partners created for Sepia restaurant before, and now the team is back with an elegant encore presentation. The Michelin-starred resto has taken over the former Maria Pinto boutique... Read more
Les Dames d’Escoffier is a global group of women in all manner of culinary professions, dedicated to celebrating feminine foodie achievements and raising money for educational programs and charities... Read more
I recently picked up a few things at Bloomingdale’s downtown Chicago location, and at some point between “Looking for anything in particular?” and “Receipt in the bag, okay?” the skies opened up with one of those awesome, torrential summer storms. So I decided to have a little shop, and wait out the rain... Read more
I always meet interesting people at my friends Randee and Al Simon’s parties (she’s a talented artist and illustrator, he’s an optometrist who moonlights as a rockabilly Devil Dog…so there’s that), and at a birthday party for Al last weekend I chewed the fat with Chicago photographer Jennifer Greenburg, who had gifted the hep birthday boy with a copy of her latest book, The Rockabillies. Read more