Maybe 20-30 minutes of ads before the movie after paying $15 a ticket might be part of the problem. The cost of the crappy food is also outrageous. You could be doing a lot more to make going to the movies better.

My bookshop(dot)org bookstore just got approved!!!! Excited to start curating my selection. Any indie authors, and particularly BIPOC and LGBTQ+ authors who have their books on there lmk if you’d like to be included in my storefront (to hopefully one day in the way off future become a physical store here in nyc!!!)

Between the scores of working artists, underpaid arts administrators, and wealthy, often well-meaning arts hobbyists with cash to burn on $40 tickets and $7 bottles of Dasani, the question burns: What does Expo Chicago actually do for the local arts community?

The obvious answer is the boring one. Art fairs sell art. But in actuality, that purpose fractures into something messier.