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Chicago Tribune
16-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Chicago Tribune
What to do in Chicago: Beyoncé, Vintage Store Day and BADBADNOTGOOD
Beyoncé: Queen Bey is here to set the record straight, as she wraps a three-night stand of the 'Cowboy Carter' tour at Soldier Field. Based on earlier reports from the tour, the three-hour spectacle is not to be missed — but then, who would expect anything less? Mayfest: The summer festival season gets underway with Lincoln Park's Mayfest. In addition to the usual music, food and fun, Mayfest will include a Spring Fine Art Mart featuring artists from across the country. BADBADNOTGOOD: Perhaps best known for their Grammy Award-winning collaborations with Kendrick Lamar and Thundercat, Toronto's BADBADNOTGOOD has sold out two shows at Thalia Hall. See them perform their 'Mid Spiral' tour with Baby Rose and Tim Zawada. CHIRP Music Film Festival: Love CHIRP's vibe? This weekend, you can see it reflected on the big screen, in a half-dozen or so movies that make up the CHIRP Music Film Festival. The festival closes Sunday with Sam Jones's Wilco documentary, 'I Am Trying to Break Your Heart.' In the meantime, you can watch 'Save the Children,' a film documenting a 1972 Operation PUSH concert featuring Roberta Flack, Marvin Gaye, Curtis Mayfield and more; 'Angelheaded Hipster,' a documentary about T Rex frontman Marc Bolan; and 'Lifers,' which captures a Local H show at the Metro. Chicago Humanities Festival Lincoln Park Day: Another reminder that the Chicago Humanities Festival continues to chug along, offering a thought-provoking spring lineup. On Sunday alone, you can hear from actor Leslie Odom Jr. ('Hamilton'); Broadway producer Jeffrey Seller ('Hamilton' and 'Rent'); National Book Award-winner Ibram X. Kendi on Malcolm X; New Yorker writer John Cassidy ('Capitalism and Its Critics'); poet Reginald Dwayne Betts ('Doggerel'); a conversation between cartoonist Chris Ware and writer/curator Dan Nadel about cartoonist Robert Crumb; Michigan Secretary of State and gubernatorial candidate Jocelyn Benson; and activists Tamika Mallory and Amanda Nguyen. 'The Antiquities': Jordan Harrison's dystopian play offers 'snapshots of the earliest days of techno-danger (such as the AOL dial-up moment) and their connection to his imagined future where humans can no longer find any purpose in their lives,' according to the Tribune review. If you prefer theater that makes you think, get to the Goodman. Wright Plus Architectural Housewalk: This weekend, homeowners in Oak Park, Elmhurst and Oak Brook offer a glimpse of private residences designed by Frank Lloyd Wright and his contemporaries. See how these historic structures live on as individual homes. Vintage Store Day: April brought us Record Store Day and Independent Bookstore Day. Now we get the inaugural Vintage Store Day, co-founded by two Chicago shops — Lost Girls and Rare Form. More than 100 stores across Illinois will join with 700 or so across the country to encourage vintage shopping. Reduce, recycle, reuse — right? Swing Into Summer: The forecast is looking good to get outside this weekend, so consider heading to Navy Pier to try out some sports. Coaches will be available to help you hone your skills in pickleball, wiffle ball, baseball softball or golf. The Pier Park Mini Golf Course will also host competitions. The Sugar Hole: Summer must be around the corner, because The Sugar Hole opens this weekend. Now in its second season, the Color Club's ice cream stand is one of the city's most delightful experiences. Puppets — Puddles, Moolissa or Jeremiah Carburetor — take your order. Thanks to an expanded menu, that order could now include strawberry soft serve, adult drinks or Bang Bang Pie & Biscuit hand pies. This year's opening day, May 17, will feature a parade, yoga, a puppet show and crafts.
Boston Globe
15-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Boston Globe
Here's something new: Saturday is the first international Vintage Store Day.
Emma Lewis, the owner of Get Love Letters: The Newsletter A weekly dispatch with all the best relationship content and commentary – plus exclusive content for fans of Love Letters, Dinner With Cupid, weddings, therapy talk, and more. Enter Email Sign Up 'We're very, very pleasantly surprised for the first year,' Lewis said in a recent phone call. 'It's as grass roots as it gets.' Advertisement Plenty of the participating shop owners have told her that the creation of a Vintage Store Day feels 'overdue,' she said. Jeans from Groovy Thifty. Handout 'We've seen lines down the block for Record Store Day,' Lewis said. Another inspiration for the vintage store event is Advertisement Stores around Boston that have signed on for the inaugural Vintage Store Day include Sadie MacIver opened her garden-level 'It's all high-quality and niche,' MacIver said. She maintains a wide range of price points. Some of her rarer inventory, going back to the 1960s and '70s, is priced for collectors, she said, 'but I also recognize that my demographic is college students. I'm 10 minutes from BU. I remember being in college, when I did not have $80 to spend on a T-shirt.' At her own store in Chicago, Lewis sells vintage apparel, home goods, and jewelry. But she specializes in antique art prints. 'For me, it's about historic preservation,' she said. 'I'm keeping these pieces alive, and out of the landfill.' For many vintage shop owners, sustainability has become a key by-product of their business. Consumers are more attuned than ever, they say, to the drawbacks of the 'fast fashion' industry and big-box retail, including environmental damage and the exploitation of underpaid workers. Advertisement At Nest in Portsmouth, Ardito gets excited when a shopper buys a functional piece of home decor from her rather than spending at Target or Walmart. 'Instead of going to a big-box store looking for a plant stand, they buy something from me that has oodles of character and patina,' she said. 'I love bringing a piece of furniture back from the brink, refurbishing it, and it becomes somebody else's new heirloom.' She abides by a favorite quote from William Morris, the 19th-century architect and designer associated with the Victorian-era Arts and Crafts Movement in England: 'Have nothing in your house that you do not know to be useful, or believe to be beautiful.' Ardito also has a motto she came up with on her own. 'We're saving the planet, and being badass doing it,' she said with a laugh. James Sullivan can be reached at . James Sullivan can be reached at
Chicago Tribune
13-05-2025
- Business
- Chicago Tribune
Antique, resale shops claim a holiday of their own with Vintage Store Day
Emma Lewis, the owner of Rare Form in Chicago, believes that vintage stores deserve a day dedicated to them. So, she created one. May 17 will be Vintage Store Day. Apparently, Lewis isn't the only one who thinks it's a good idea. Over 700 stores across the country — and counting — have agreed to participate. Locally, that includes Jackson Square Mall and Blue Coral Vintage in La Grange, Heart's Desire Antiques and La Grange Park Antique Mall in La Grange Park, and Mabel's Market in Lemont. Like the successful Record Store Day and Comic Book Store Day promotions that have caught on nationwide, organizers hope Vintage Store Day will become an annual tradition and spur visits to locally owned businesses. 'I hope the communities of customers for all the vintage stores will come out and show their support and hopefully go to more than one store,' Lewis said. 'We actually have a passport that we designed so that you can get a sticker at each store that you go to and then mail in your passport to be entered for a gift certificate to a store of your choosing.' A large number of the participating shops are in Illinois, but shops in 42 states will celebrate the day. 'I spent months sending thousands of emails,' Lewis reported. I really tried to include every urban area that I could think of.' The owners of Lost Girl in Chicago, Sarah Azzouzi and Kyla Embrey, are cofounders of Vintage Store Day. Lewis plans to give a discount on her antique prints and give one away for Vintage Store Day. She will also give away tote bags. Therese O'Sullivan is the owner of Jackson Square Mall at 112 E. Burlington Ave. in La Grange. The Mall opened around 1996; O'Sullivan purchased it in 2020. 'We focus on mainly vintage and antique home décor and furniture,' O'Sullivan said. 'We have more than 70 microbusinesses that are residents of Jackson Square Mall. They have anything from vintage candlesticks and artwork to midcentury modern furniture. There's a lot of vintage toys from the '70s, '80s and '90s.' O'Sullivan said the Mall offers a start for small businesses. 'This is a great way to give them the experience of being in a retail environment and succeed,' O'Sullivan said. 'We have an online store and we market heavily.' O'Sullivan reported that Vintage Store Day cofounder Lewis was once a dealer in the Jackson Square Mall. The dealers at the Mall will all be running specials on Vintage Store Day, O'Sullivan said. In addition, they will give double-points in the Mall's loyalty program that day. 'We're also going to raffle off a $50 gift card,' O'Sullivan said. 'We'll have coffee and some sweet treats out.' Blue Coral Vintage, another business located in the Jackson Square Mall, is not part of O'Sullivan's group of vendors, but rents space in the Mall. It will also be participating in Vintage Store Day. They specialize in 'treasures for your home and wardrobe,' according to their Facebook page. Ellen Vanderhoof is one of the dealers at the La Grange Park Antique Mall which has been located at 800 E. 31st St. in La Grange Park for about 25 years. In the last five years, the venue has been a dealer-run mall. Vanderhoof has sold merchandise at the Mall for about seven years. 'My booth and my merchandise fall under this category of Boho,' she said. 'I have ethnic arts, textiles, vintage pottery, some jewelry, and vintage and boho clothing.' There is a wide variety of items available from the many dealers in the Mall, including glassware, coins, vintage clothing, Victorian items and '70s items, among other specialties, Vanderhoof said. She said dealers at the La Grange Park Antique Mall have a number of things planned for Vintage Store Day. 'We have surprise sales, special discounts on selected items and selected dealers,' she said. There will also be raffles and beverages. 'We're really excited about it,' Vanderhoof said. Heart's Desire Antiques at 1014 E. 31st St. in La Grange Park is also participating in Vintage Store Day. That shop specializes in 'one-of-a-kind antiques,' according to its website, which shows a wide variety of clothing, decorative items, and more. Sommer Steele opened Mabel's Market at 307 Canal St. in Lemont in 2015. 'I do vintage antiques, handmade, small batch gifts, and I do a lot of refinishing of furniture.' She was inspired to get into this business because 'I grew up with a dad who loved antiques and he loved repurposing old items,' Steele explained. Her business will be doing a grab bag with any purchase on Vintage Store Day. 'We have a bowl that has different prizes—it might be a discount or a candle,' Steele said. She has high praise for Vintage Store Day. 'This was such an awesome way to be able to say we're a community, we're not in competition, especially in the vintage antique market where almost every piece is unique,' Steele said.
