Emmylou Harris has a way of making any song transmit vivid imagery and immediate emotion, whether it’s an original or a cover ...

The titles of Magic Tuber Stringband’s records typically invoke the time or place in which they were made. The avant-folk trio wrote the 2023 album Tarantism under COVID restrictions in spring 2020, ...

A half century ago, you might’ve expected a Bay Area band called World Peace to be an acid-fried hippie collective singing about their optimistic vision for the future and radiating goodwill toward ...

The Budos Band make their own zeitgeist. In the mid-2000s, the New York group’s early records created rich blends of Ethiopian jazz, Afrobeat, funk, and vintage soul. Those styles remain part of their ...

The plot follows the work of the suffragist movement through the lens of two of its most prominent activists. Carrie Chapman Catt (Marya Grandy, deploying a belt that goes for blocks) is the “old ...

But the Oak Park Festival Theatre version, directed by artistic director Peter G. Andersen, takes a speech which has always ...

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

When I’m scrolling on Instagram, perusing party promo photos of people dancing in some south-side warehouse or West Town ...

From June 25 to June 28, Synapse Arts presented 2026 New Works at Berger Park Cultural Center, featuring trace by Qū Jié 曲洁 ...

For nearly a decade, the global media treated the high-profile death of Illinois socialite Sheila von Wiese-Mack as a one-dimensional true-crime spectacle. Most accounts zeroed in on the gruesome ...

Last year, Chicago microlabel Black Dice Records started releasing small-run CDs by fringe screamo bands. The label has ...

MUBI FEST returns to Chicago July 10–12 with a weekend of exclusive screenings, live music, and special events across The Salt Shed, Music Box Theatre, and Gene Siskel Film Center. Highlights include ...