Plus: Roving underground party Trench drops its own debut comp, Bookclub hosts a benefit for two of the Broadview Six, and ...

Yay, we have Juneteenth off! So we’re going to—” yadda yadda yadda. When President Joe Biden signed Juneteenth into law as a federal holiday on June 17, 2021—commemorating the 1865 day Union soldiers ...

Hard Scrabble Sky by James Turrell was not only the first free, public Skyspace, but also the first in an urban environment.

In “Between Us” at Project Onward, sister cities Chicago and Osaka come alive in works made collaboratively by neurodiverse artists.

The Moviegoer is the diary of a local film buff, collecting the best of what Chicago’s independent and underground film scene ...

The Purple Cucumber helped launch the career of drummer Vince Ippolito, whose work with Happy Day Productions included ads ...

The Summer Smash works in part because it’s distinct to the region. The fest bears the name of the local hip-hop media outlet ...

Though Darius Jones tends to choose clearly defined sound worlds for the groups he leads, he fits quite naturally into Stephan Crump and Eric McPherson’s spontaneous approach on the trio’s debut CD, ...

Babe Haven invite you to imagine a refuge where all babes can let their freak flags fly. The North Carolina four-piece, who call themselves a “high energy queer punk band,” co ...

Arrested Development rank among our 90s hip-hop legends—though those who weren’t there sometimes confuse them with the ...

More transmasculine social groups are popping up in Chicago, offering much-needed places to ask questions and connect.

Every month, dancers gather here, at Lakeview’s Second Unitarian Church for Queer Contra Chicago. There’s a lesson at 6:30 PM, dancing begins at 7, and the whole thing wraps up around 9:30, after ...