Lyric stages Richard Strauss's twisted but thrilling Salome, based on Oscar Wilde's play, for the first time in 20 years.

The beloved weirdo dance-music night at Danny’s, gone nearly 20 years, returns at Wicker Park gallery Public Works.

Talisman,” a multigenerational group show curated by Hindley Wang, gathers a selection inscrutable two- and three-dimensional works.

As the Poetry Foundation sunsets its adult education programming, the poet and educator remains committed to facilitating communal poetry spaces.

In the fall, a TikTok conspiracy theory emerged that rising UK rapper EsDeeKid, who never appears in public without a balaclava, is in fact popular actor Timothée Chalamet. I can still sometimes enjoy ...

Optic Sink have stuck with the dark hypnotic synths and danceable grooves from their debut but they’re now more melodic and ...

Like so many albums, Runo Plum’s debut full-length, November’s Patching (Winspear), was inspired by a breakup and the ...

Jon-Carlo Manzo’s Fire Talk imprint Angel Tapes embodies the values of the underground by investing in artists long before they’re sure bets.

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

The Uncanny Attic Chapters E-H continued Beautifully Gruesome's exploration of The Gashlycrumb Tinies at Steppenwolf's ...

Daniel Will used to walk more than a mile and a half to school on single-digit winter mornings in Port Washington, Wisconsin. That’s a small town just north of Milwaukee, right on Lake Michigan, not ...

Justin Purcell's Magic Is People at Chicago Magic Lounge combines insider humor about the craft with astounding close-up ...