I Dream I Cross the River in One Stride” refuses peripheral viewing, showing a Black femme visual tradition of surrendering to complexity.

Matthew Ozawa uses lavish spectacle and heartfelt performances while exploring Puccini's orientalism through VR in this Lyric ...

Rather than get caught up in rags-to-riches fantasies on Pray 4 Me, Patrick expresses gratitude for friends and family and ...

Spoon Benders have a history of road-testing their songs, so you can come to the Hideout anticipating new material.

Footballhead’s new Weight of the Truth (Tiny Engines) cranks its alt-rock hooks up to 11 with chugging power chords polished to the density of gold bricks.

Every Lamb of God record, front man Randy Blythe noted, contains songs that confront political and religious extremism, ...

The new digital literary journal Project 2052 invites writers, poets, and artists to help expand the universe of Everything for Everyone.

As Sandy Shinner's tenure as producing artistic director at Shattered Globe winds down, she reflects on her decades in ...

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

Emancipation Park," magicfeifei’s show at SkyART South, traps viewers in a taboo relationship dynamic: that between old men and young girls.

The company's one-weekend revival of Poor Poor Lear takes them back to where it all began in 1999 as an aging actress plays ...

Never before has an exclamation point promised so much. And in Maggie Gyllenhaal’s The Bride!—a clunking, clumsy rage against the machine—it sure as hell delivers. For all the downfalls of this ...