Culture

Chicago-based Iranian-American artist Azadeh Hussaini first discovered her passion for artistry as a teen. She received what she describes as “informal training” from her father Reza Hossaini, a prolific Tehran-based painter whose work blends the line between classicism and modernism and has been featured in more than 50 solo and group exhibitions, who gave Hussaini

Writers Theatre has been an artistic mainstay on the North Shore for 30 years. What began as a makeshift theater with only 50 seats in the back of a bookstore has blossomed into an award-winning theater group and a much-lauded component of the Chicago theater scene. Now, Executive Director Kate Lipuma and Interim Artistic Director

The golden glow spilling through Pixca’s front windows may be as warm as Oaxaca, Chef-owner Fernando Angelina’s birthplace, but the food is a global embrace. Pixca, the Mayan word for “harvest,” continues the vegetable-forward adventures Angelina started as executive chef at Guildhall in Glencoe, with new seasonal surprises. The burrata you’ve had elsewhere as an

Abe “A.J.” Goldsmith has never been a fan of making a New Year’s resolution. His sound thinking for having such an indifference to the annual promise: Why wait until the first day of each year to resolve to do something when today—or any day—would be as good as, or even better than, January 1? Good