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I contributed a full-length feature on event organizer Crystal Bauer Feldman to the spring 2019 issue of Kitchen Toke magazine. [Available in print only]

April's column kicks off the beginning of my second year writing this column for FACT! Happy anniversary to me.

I wrote about how Chicago’s Latinx music scene creates community across cultures for RBMA.

An interview with Pilsen native Chef Manny Mendoza about the Herbal Notes pop-up dinner series, community re-investment and healing through cannabis.

Lorena Cupcake on CupcakKe.

Recapped 2018 + built a bangin' playlist for FACT.

"I'm not mainstream. You gotta find me,” says Making the Band star turned electronic pop auteur Dawn Richard.

I contributed a list of five places to hear great house to this celebration of Chicago’s pioneering dance music.

I profiled Betty Fraser, chef at Grub and Top Chef contestant, for the 2018/2019 winter issue of cannabis cooking magazine Kitchen Toke. [Available in print only]

I wrote about:

#31 - City Girls - Period
#22 - CupcakKe - Ephorize
#12 - serpentwithfeet - soil

A feature on DJ Taye, the young Teklife producer that's spreading footwork worldwide.

I wrote about:

#39 - Quay Dash - U.A.F.W.M
#15 - Junglepussy - Trader Joe
#7 - Valee - Womp Womp

I contributed briefs on covered pioneering synth innovator Wendy Carlos (1971) and breakout lesbian songwriter k.d. lang (1992) to this list of important songs in LGBTQ+ history.

Up this month: Schoolboy Q, Kari Faux, Lizzo and Missy Elliott and more.

The The Rap Round-up's first month in a playlist format. Headphones on, please.