The Charmed Life
Our tips for living well this weekend

Here’s to the weekend—two whole days without alarm clocks, pencil skirts, or commutes. What will we be up to? Read on for our tips for living slow and living well this weekend.

Graze Magazine
We chat with the folks behind our new favorite food mag

Graze magazine eschews prescriptive menus, tips, and recipes in favor of thoughtful reflections on the importance food—and the sharing of it—has in our lives. Listen in as we talk shop (and food, of course!) with the mag's Logan Square-based co-founders.

Pay it Forward
Five non-profits worthy of your free time

we rounded some of Chicago’s worthiest non-profits who all just happen to be on the hunt for volunteers. Fit for any type of woman, these Chicago charities promise to leverage your support to make a difference.

The Creative Closet
A closet tour with a local costume designer

You’ve got plenty of clothes and nothing to wear. Enter professional wardrobe stylist and costume designer Britton Esposito: Your guide to making sense of your wardrobe again.

Engineering Wonder

Confetti cannons, pyrotechnic hamster wheels, bathtubs-turned-floating-canoes. Wine-dispensing bicycles, dressers transformed into stages, fire organs synced to the climbing octaves of opera singers. These are the devices of your dreams—yes—but also the impossible inventions of Chicago’s own Redmoon Theater.

Weekend Wear
What to wear and where to wear it

With the weekend just around the corner, we’ve called in one of the most stylish women we know to pick her brain on what to wear. Fashion blogger, Lauren Chu plans our weekend looks to keep us chic through Sunday.

Park It
Adventuring through the city’s greenest treasures

Little known fact: Chicago is home to more than 580 parks, amounting to 8,100 acres of lush, green space. Our fair city has the oldest and largest park district in the nation, but its green spaces are so much more than, well, green space.

True Stories
Real women. Real stories. Rooted in Chicago.

We’re eager to share the stories of real women and their true-life experiences living in this city we love. We kick off our True Stories series with Chicago writer Emily Schultze.

Lost Girls Vintage
A Q&A with the girls behind the brand

We have a soft spot for Chicago women following their dreams. So when we found out that two city women—Sarah Azzouzi and Kyla Embrey—were on the hunt for an old RV to renovate and travel cross-country in, we knew we had to hear their story.

The Charmed Life
Our tips for living well this weekend

Now that the weekend has finally arrived, we’re eager to ditch the office life in favor of eating, drinking, and shopping the best of the city. So what’s on tap for the weekend?

To Market, to Market
The Urbaness’ guide to shopping the city’s farmers markets

Just as the mercury inches past 80 comes one more telltale sign that spring is here to stay: the arrival of open air markets. This month, many of Chicago’s farmers markets will crop up in a neighborhood near you, bringing with them a bounty of fresh produce from small, local farms.

Taking the Stage
We chat food, body politics, and theatre with director Dani Bryant

Chicago director Dani Bryant’s star is rising with a show at Victory Gardens and a host of food-themed plays that have us hungry to meet the woman behind the theatre curtain