Taryn McFadden

6 days ago | chicagoreader.com | Taryn McFadden

Chef Hailee Catalano celebrates her debut cookbook, By Heart: Recipes to Hold Near and Dear, with a midwest homecoming.

1 week ago | chicagoreader.com | Micco Caporale |Savannah Ray Hugueley |Taryn McFadden |J. Patrick Patterson

It’s a great time for sapphics in Chicago—maybe not as good as it was five months ago, when there were more federal protections and resources allocated for women, nonbinary people, and the LGBTQ+ community. But it’s a better time than when homosexuality was pathologized in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, women needed a male signatory to open a bank account, and most public trans women wanted husbands, never wives or girlfriends.

Jan 7, 2025 | chicagoreader.com | Taryn McFadden

Reader Bites celebrates dishes, drinks, and atmospheres from the Chicagoland food scene. Have you had a recent food or drink experience that you can’t stop thinking about? Share it with us at [email protected]. The Youngster at R&A Sourdough is a bagel sandwich with plain schmear, your choice of sausage or hot-honey bacon, egg frittata, cheddar, and hot sauce. But let’s get this out of the way: There are a few key customizations needed to make this a bagel sandwich worth talking about.

Dec 26, 2024 | chicagoreader.com | Taryn McFadden

Reader Bites celebrates dishes, drinks, and atmospheres from the Chicagoland food scene. Have you had a recent food or drink experience that you can’t stop thinking about? Share it with us at [email protected]. Hot chocolate isn’t something I usually go for. While I may crave it a couple times a year, usually around the holidays, it was more in my rotation when I was younger—before I acquired a taste for coffee, matcha, or chai.

Dec 23, 2024 | chicagoreader.com | Peter Keough |Taryn McFadden

Putting aside the joy and chaos of “Hollywood Shuffle” reading like an absolute fever dream of impressions and quotations, this piece from April 2, 1987, is a fascinating time capsule. Not only does it accomplish the classic Reader feat of spotlighting a now-famous Chicagoan at the onset of their career, but it also provides a glimpse of the film industry in the late 80s, notably describing how it felt to be a Black creative trying to find work.