The Magic of Soup & Bread

A Hideout tradition [READER]( I realize I'm outnumbered when it comes to my love for winter—and part of the reason I cherish these dreadfully cold months is because of [Soup & Bread]( at the [Hideout](. For nearly a decade, during the first three months of the year, I've spent nearly every Wednesday at the Hideout, eating at least a few different soups by a variety of chefs who volunteer their time and labor for the community. All the soup is available for a donation, and the money benefits local food pantries and hunger-relief organizations. Since it launched in 2009, Soup & Bread has raised more than $90,000, which goes to show how much people around here care about grassroots fundraisers at large, and this event in particular. I've attended Soup & Bread long enough that I consider the community there part of my own, and I've evangelized it so much to my friends that several of them are also regulars. The great Martha Bayne and Sheila Sachs corral the cooks week after week. Since Bayne and Sachs spent many years working at the Reader, a crew of their colleagues who helped make the Reader an institution hang out—getting to know them better is part of what I cherish about Soup & Bread, and makes me feel an even deeper connection with this newspaper. Soup & Bread attracts a stable of Hideout regulars, some of whom I've often bumped into outside of the venue—including at a Wicker Park loft party thrown by a local hip-hop podcast. Soup & Bread also has a musical component; Bayne and Sachs get a lot of great locals plugged into various scenes to DJ. I was thrilled to DJ Soup & Bread for the first time last year, and I'll spin again on Wednesday, March 18. If you've never been to Soup & Bread, I suggest you make it out to any of the next few—the season sadly ends next month. Sincerely, ["Pop is Obsessed With What's Next. So U.S. Girls Revisited Her Past.,"]( by Lindsay Zoladz (New York Times) ["I, also, would like to thank the, uh, Ratboys for their music.,"]( by Dan Ozzi (Reply Alt) ["From Pubes to Healthcare: The Stupid Brilliance of Sarah Squirm,"]( by Rick Paulas (Vice) DJ Hank, ["Posi Vibes"]( R.A.P. Ferreira, purple moonlight pages Birches, [II]( Ness Lake, [everything green and overgrown]( [Rollicking pianist Big Maceo Merriweather was a major architect of Chicago blues]( His heyday as a recording artist lasted just five years, but his output includes some of the most widely covered songs in the history of the genre. By [Steve Krakow]( [Desmadre de Dios on the gig poster of the week]( By [Salem Collo-Julin]( [@hollo]( [Issue of Mar 12-18, 2020 Vol. 49, No. 23]( [Download Issue]( (PDF) [DONATE]( [View this e-mail as a web page]( [@chicago_reader]( [/chicagoreader]( [@chicago_reader]( [Chicago Reader on LinkedIn]( [/chicagoreader]( [chicagoreader.com]( [Forward this e-mail to a friend](. Want to change how you receive these e-mails? You can [update your preferences]( or [unsubscribe from this list](. Copyright © 2020 Chicago Reader, All rights reserved. You are receiving this email because you opted in via our website. Our mailing address is: Chicago Reader 2930 S. Michigan Ave., Ste 102Chicago, IL 60616-3228 [Add us to your address book]( Want to change how you receive these emails? You can [update your preferences]( or [unsubscribe from this list](. [Mailchimp Email Marketing](