Shootings decreased overall last year, but the opposite was true in 17 neighborhoods. Most aren't included in Chicago's community safety plan.

Folly Group’s “Paying the Price” is one of the best electronica-infused postpunk songs about shame, and it’s only a B side.

A craftsman of combining uplifting spirituality and music, Ben Katzman plays the Empty Bottle with Thicc Lizzy and Edging.

A longtime fringe favorite gets a festival of her two-character plays in Hamburgers & Disappointment with Sweetback ...

When the Reader checked in with local noisemaking polymath Seb Alvarez in 2022, he’d turned his creative focus away from his ...

Psych-poppers Plastics Hi-Fi tried mainstreaming their trippy “bathtub symphonies” and ended up disbanding with their final ...

Playing at Constellation, Marisa Anderson and Jim White's collaboration is a mix of abstract exploration and gentle folk ...

Giggs’s self-released debut full-length, Walk in da Park, is a landmark album in UK hip-hop history, and almost 16 years ...

Since entering SAIC’s MFA sculpture program, Galen Odell-Smedley has produced a body of work conceptually astute and ...

Eiko Ishibashi brings her taut and richly layered music to Logan Center for the Arts for her most recent Hamaguchi ...

They draw us in without having to overplay the tics and tropes written into this early Simon comedy.

“The Lute is Eternal” proclaims the text that concludes the ten-minute video to Jozef van Wissem’s recent single, “The Call ...