If you’ve seen the posters for Blockers, the latest teen comedy about the age-old quest to lose one’s virginity, you’ve probably noticed a white outline of a rooster substituting the missing syllable in the film’s cheeky title (ICYMI, a riff on the slang term for one who thwarts sexual activity). ... More

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Since 2012, Noa Santos has been bringing homeowners and designers together as the co-founder and CEO of Homepolish, a platform built to streamline and democratize the interior decorating process. But since launching Homepolish’s home remodeling arm, Build, Santos has been not only offering consumers a full-spectrum design ... More

Danielle DuBoise, co-founder of plant-based meal-delivery service Sakara Life, is currently five-and-a-half-months pregnant. After discovering she was expecting, DuBoise says it didn’t take long for her to make a second discovery: that while she’s well-versed in the dialogue surrounding diet and nutrition, digesting the ... More

Jesse McCartney has long had his feet firmly planted in pop music; from his roots as a boy-bander (Dream Street, anyone?) to his 2004 breakout solo hit “Beautiful Soul,” McCartney has specialized in serving sugarcoated vocals and lyrics. While he continued to attract a loyal gaggle of tween ... More

Whether you trace the food hall trend back to recent coastal iterations in New York and L.A., or all the way back to its deep roots in medieval Europe, you can’t deny it’s finally arrived in Chicago. Ignited by the success of Revival Food Hall, which ... More

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If there is a recipe for timelessness, Aerin Lauder, granddaughter of beauty industry revolutionary Estée Lauder, has figured it out. Achieving timeless style requires an ability to marry the traditional with the fresh and modern, to combine heritage with spirit. As style and image director of Estée Lauder and founder ... More

In the past few years, Hayley Kiyoko has gone from a Disney Channel star to the so-called “lesbian Jesus”—a cheeky moniker bestowed on her by fans thanks to her über-relatable lyrics about relationship frustrations. As one of pop music’s only openly gay female artists, Kiyoko says that just because ... More

Having yielded a dozen albums and three Grammys, Ben Harper’s voice—confident and velvety—personifies a life of musical discovery. When we catch up on the phone, the singer-songwriter tells me about the early years of his career spent chasing down blues legends like Louis Myers of The Aces, Brownie McGhee ... More