In the weeks since Chicago created its first mural registry to protect public street art from accidentally being erased, more than 150 projects have been…
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The different faces of the cuy, our Guinea pig. IN SOME PLACES, they are kept as lovable pets, yet in Peru they are considered the…
Bulletin boards, sign-up sheets and empty seats line the walls of the People’s Music School in Chicago’s Uptown neighborhood. The sound of a single trumpet…
Aguas Calientes, a required stop on the way to Machu Picchu, is quaint and chaotic. DESPITE BEING WEDGED between Peru’s lush green mountains along the…
In an almost empty music hall, the beats of plena — a type of music that comes from Puerto Rico — echo off the walls…
You come to Peru, you leave with alpacas UP IN THE ANDES in the Peruvian region of Cusco, Quechua people work to make intricate patterns…
WHETHER YOU’RE ONE of the 7,000 students at Columbia College Chicago or just passing by in the South Loop, it’s difficult not to see one…
Hues and meaning on the other side of the Equator ON THE EARLY MORNING of Jan. 1, 2018, the city of Lima, Peru, was quiet.…