One-Way Ticket Part 3: On making friends

One-Way Ticket Part 2: You can only be where you are and nowhere else

One-Way Ticket: This is what I had to do

Kristina Francisco loves Another Green World

Kristina Francisco loves How to Cook Everything Vegetarian

Kristina Francisco loves Sarah's Pastries & Candies

Renegade Craft Fair and Renegade Handmade   Issue #34

Boygirlparty.com   Issue #34

The Black Apple   Issue #34

In Her Own Words   Issue #34

Vocalist Adele Bethel and bassist Ailidh Lennon tell us how Sons and Daughters found their pop sensibility for their new record, The Gift

Kristina Francisco loves 101cookbooks.com

Ferraby Lionheart   Issue #33

The story of a boy with a curious name

St. Vincent   Issue #32

The Polyphonic Spree guitarist and Sufjan Stevens comrade — ka Annie Clark — goes solo with her debut album, Marry Me

SWOON   Issue #32

The New York artist turns to the streets to give an invigorating face to ‘ordinary reality’

LAVENDER DIAMOND   Issue #32

Becky Stark is here to bring love, peace, and celebration to your world. For real.

DAINTY DESIGNS   Issue #32

Sarah Fox embraces lace with Cursive Design

SOUND BAR   Issue #32

The Rosebuds’ Kelly Crisp loves racy reading, Russian poetry, and Dolly Parton

Deerhoof   Issue #31

Our Sounds editor checks in with her favorite band of all time. After 10 albums, they’re all about connecting with fans, keeping it real, and making friend opportunities along the way.

Andrew Bird   Issue #31

One of Chicago’s biggest talents addresses damage control on Armchair Apocrypha

Electrelane   Issue #31

No Shout, No Calls (Too Pure)

Anaïs Mitchell   Issue #31

The Brightness (Righteous Babe)

The Blow   Issue #30

With their new album, Paper Television, the Portland duo says they’re just trying to keep it real

Uncommon threads   Issue #29

Clothing for Charity sells designs with a conscience

Sublime Stitching: Hundreds of Hip Embroidery Patterns and How-To   Issue #29

By Jenny Hart (Chronicle Books, 224 pages, $19.50)

Clock watcher   Issue #29

Give an old watch a facelift with a colorful new ribbon band

In her own words   Issue #29

Amy Millan spills details on the making of her first solo release

Sound Bar   Issue #29

Tanya Stephens’ Top 5 Dancehall Influences

In Her Own Words - Regina Spektor   Issue #28

Regina Spektor briefs us on her latest album, Begin to Hope

R.I.P. Betty Friedan   Issue #28

We commemorate the passing of the influential author by asking a few good women (and men) about feminism today

Keep your cool   Issue #28

Hate heels?

She Works Hard For the Money   Issue #27

Human rights attorney liberates immigrant domestic-violence victims from their abusers

Liars

Drum’s Not Dead CD/DVD(Mute)

Margaret Cho   Issue #27

The notorious C.H.O. stops in Chicago and talks about life after All-American Girl, the enduring racism toward Asians in America, and why the U.S. isn’t really the land of the free

Young People   Issue #27

All At Once (Too Pure)

Tender Forever   Issue #26

The Soft and the Hardcore (K)

The Mendoza Line   Issue #26

Full of Light and Full of Fire (Misra)

She Works Hard For the Money   Issue #26

Innocence Project caseworker fights wrongful death-penalty convictions, one inmate at a time

New Black   Issue #25

From record deals to Scrabble games, the Chicago foursome is on a winning streak

Vashti Bunyan   Issue #24

After 30-plus years, the British singer-songwriter finally gets the recognition she deserves

Sex Bomb: Tunde Adebimpe   Issue #24

Get to know the TV on the Radio singer

Sufjan Stevens   Issue #24

The musician takes on Illinois for the second part of his American states project. But he asks that you not take him so literally. He’s really not the historian he’s cracked up to be.

Dirty Projectors: CD Review   Issue #24

The Getty Address (Western Vinyl)

O‘ahu, Hawai‘i   Issue #23

Why did our Sounds editor leave her hometown paradise for the Midwest?

Clock watcher   Issue #29

By Kristina Francisco

M.I.A.   Issue #33

With big love for her mama and her signature punk approach to dance music, is she the modern girl next door or the most exciting thing since riot grrrl? We're convinced she's both.

By Anne-Marie Payne

Get into Flower Arranging

By Cortney Heimerl

Elsie Flannigan of A Beautiful Mess

By Amy Strauss

Venus Zine Crowns the Queen of Rock ‘n’ Roll!   Issue #44

PART 1: STAFF PICKS

By Venus Zine Staff

The Greatest Female Guitarists of All Time, H–M   Issue #35

By Venus Zine Staff

The Greatest Female Guitarists of All Time, A–G   Issue #35

By Venus Zine Staff