-
Archives
- September 2025
- July 2025
- September 2024
- April 2024
- January 2024
- July 2023
- April 2023
- March 2023
- August 2022
- July 2022
- August 2020
- July 2020
- June 2020
- January 2020
- September 2019
- August 2019
- July 2019
- May 2019
- January 2019
- September 2018
- July 2018
- April 2018
- March 2018
- February 2018
- January 2018
- December 2017
- November 2017
- October 2017
- September 2017
- July 2017
- April 2017
- January 2017
- September 2016
- July 2016
- June 2016
- April 2016
- March 2016
- January 2016
- December 2015
- September 2015
- July 2015
- June 2015
- April 2015
- March 2015
- February 2015
-
Meta
Category Archives: Lineups
In the Frunchroom: Marisa Novara
As we’ve said, this month’s theme deals with race, identity and segregation. The Metropolitan Planning Council has been looking at these issues all year long with its Cost of Segregation project. So we’re thrilled to have MPC’s vice-president Marisa Novara … Continue reading
In the Frunchroom: Tina Jenkins Bell
In 2017, Chicagoans of all backgrounds have celebrated the 100th anniversary of Gwendolyn Brooks, our city’s pre-eminent chronicler of African-American life. For our October show, we’re grateful to be joined by some artists who have been influenced by Miss Brooks’s … Continue reading
In the Frunchroom: Parneshia Jones
We’re just a few days away from our next Frunchroom event at Beverly Arts Center. And this month, we are lucky enough to have the incomparable poet Parneshia Jones with us. Parneshia Jones is the author of Vessel: Poems (Milkweed … Continue reading
In the Frunchroom: Francine McKenna
As regular Frunchroom fans (Frunchers?) know, we like to pull in readers from near and far to describe a wealth of South Side experiences. Though our next reader is a native South Sider, she’s definitely traveling the longest distance to … Continue reading
In the Frunchroom: Troy LaRaviere
It’s been a busy month behind-the-scenes of The Frunchroom. First, we launched our podcast. (Expect the next episode very soon.) And then Beverly Woods closed and we had to find another venue. We’re very glad to say the Beverly Arts … Continue reading
The Frunchroom, Volume XI: Walk the (Beverly art) walk edition
For the third time since ours debut two-and-a-half years ago, The Frunchroom will have a new venue. And for the first time, our evening of South Side stories will have a unifying theme. Our next show will be at 730pm … Continue reading
Posted in Lineups
Leave a comment
Everything you need to know about tonight’s Frunchroom show
Whether you’re a longtime fan or attending for the first time, we think there will be something for you at tonight’s Frunchroom show: 730pm at Beverly Woods Restaurant. South Side Weekly named us one of the Best of the South … Continue reading
In the Frunchroom: Nareman Taha
Many of you undoubtedly saw news coverage of Palos Township trustee Sharon Brannigan’s anti-Muslim statements and the subsequent protest and calls for her resignation. One of the women who helped lead this protest will join us at The Frunchroom this … Continue reading
In the Frunchroom: Ernest Wilkins
As longtime Frunchroom attendees know, we like to bring a variety of experiences, neighborhoods and points of view into our conversations about the South Side. Luckily, we have a cultural anthropologist to help us with that this week. Ernest Wilkins … Continue reading
In the Frunchroom: Lyletta Robinson
A fixture of conversations about Woodlawn, we are so very excited to welcome Lyletta Robinson to The Frunchroom this Thursday. Since 2005, Lyletta has authored the ChicagoNow blog “I Hate My Developer” which discusses a mixture of Woodlawn neighborhood issues, … Continue reading
The Frunchroom 