Life + Culture

The Art of Lifting Others

Redefining Visibility, Resilience and the Power of Community Article by Cat Rolfes There are women who rise, and then there are women who lift. The distinction matters. Rising can be solitary. Lifting is relational. It assumes responsibility for who comes along. In this issue, our cover feature with Erin Coupe reflects on the power of living with intention. Here, we turn to two more women whose lives embody that ethos of purposeful uplift. Their paths are different, but their impact is...

Arts + Culture

Rebecca Makkai, Questions that Stay

Indie and local books that are bound to inspire. Article by Cat Rolfes Entrepreneurship has its myths. So does memory. In I Have Some Questions for You , Rebecca Makkai builds a narrative that sits squarely in that tension, part page-turner: part excavation of how we remember, revise and sometimes misread our own past. The novel grew out of a particular moment. "Being old enough to look back on that time from a very different era, being young enough to have teenage kids," she says, created a...

Entertainment

Timeless and True

Mali Wilson returns with a love story album rooted in faith, experience and Chicago soul Article by Cat Rolfes Mali Wilson has spent decades shaping the sound, careers and creative spaces of other artists with quiet intention. With her new album, Retro in Real Time: Where Love Feels Safe , the Grammy-nominated producer and artist steps fully into her own light, offering a deeply personal body of work that reflects a life lived, lessons learned and love embraced. Released March 20, the...

Food + Beverage

A place for us

A chef’s final station finds its audience Article and Photography by Cat Rolfes Halfway through our meal at Elyon, Chef Özgür "Ozzy" Yavuz said something that stopped me mid-sip. "This is your restaurant." Not a pleasantry. A declaration. He built this place for us. All of us. Because English isn’t his first language, the words arrive without ornament or excess, and land with exactly the weight he intends. Which makes what's happening on Vernon Avenue feel less like a restaurant opening and...