All lives matter. That is a phrase steeped in banality and says so much while essentially saying nothing at all. It’s genius, frankly. I imagine a politician pacing back and forth in a dark room while a think-tank struggles to come up with a bipartisan phrase that indicates that the legislator is ‘pro-universal truth’: Kittens…

Solemn chants, unified marching, protest signs, 8 minutes and 46 seconds of silence, tear gas, broken glass, striking batons, fire, screaming. Following months of lockdown, Americans are gathering outside in droves, anguished and outraged, following the death of George Floyd, and Breonna Taylor, and Ahmaud Arbery… and how many more. This reckoning for justice stems…

Alongside hundreds of industries improvising like Second City almunni, restaurants have had to contort themselves while the threat of Covid-19 persists. Despite the badge of being ‘essential’, the industry appears to have taken a substantial blow that may prove unrecoverable once life resumes to relative normalcy. The world of dining now comes in black —…