Kirsten Lambert

Anleu was fatally struck on October 24, 2023 at Waveland/Long. The other bike rider was hit last Friday evening at Grace/Long. What will it take for the Chicago Department of Transportation to implement safety measures on a stretch of Long Avenue…

Ah, summer vacation: the time of year when Chicago’s youth are free from the confines of school—but aren’t allowed to be in Millennium Park after six at night on weekends (or anywhere in public after 10 PM) without an adult present. What’s a teen to…

When word spread last week that actor, director, and playwright Michael Martin had died unexpectedly on April 26 at age 63, several of the posts on his Facebook wall expressed the same sentiment. “I’m so very sorry. I never met him in person but…

Once upon a time, you didn’t need to look far to locate a public restroom in Chicago — especially downtown. You could even find them in CTA stations. But many of those restrooms started disappearing in the 1970s, and these days they’re fairly rare,…

If you’re like many folks in the Chicago area, during non-pandemic times, you probably spend much of your commute focused on getting from one place to another in the quickest way possible – often while looking at your phone (if you take the CTA,…

When Chicago drummer Gerald Dowd released his first full-length album, Home Now, in 2014, he threw a daylong release party with the tongue-in-cheek name Day of the Dowd. Over the course of 13 hours, Dowd sat in with 16 of the artists he’s accompanied…

You never know who might show up at Hot Stove Cool Music Chicago, an annual benefit concert that brings the city’s baseball and music communities together to support nonprofits helping urban youth and families. In past years, Eddie Vedder has…

For a brief time in the 90s, Chicago’s music community took its turn in the national spotlight—Billboard magazine dubbed the city “cutting edge’s new capital” in 1993, as artists like the Smashing Pumpkins, Urge Overkill, and Liz Phair rose to fame.…

By early February, many Chicagoans don’t wanna do anything more adventurous than curl up under a blanket with a book and a mug of something hot. But Metro, WBEZ, Vocalo, and Young Chicago Authors could lure even the most cold-weather-averse hip-hop…

When Joe decided to sell Pioneer Food Market, his cousin Sophie was the one who told me the news.

I was buying some toiletries at Walgreens the other day. At the checkout register the clerk couldn’t scan one item. Finally he gave up and paged someone in the cosmetics department.

Two guys in their early twenties are riding a standing-room-only northbound Howard train during rush hour.