Language is the star, the ship, the sea, and the wreck in the Bethany Collins solo show, “Dusk,” now on view at Patron.

Chicagoan Lani Hall’s sweet, supple singing—in English and Portuguese—fueled the U.S. bossa nova boom in the late 60s.

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After a decade apart, Lstreetz has reunited with Shawnna for a joint album that proves the power of women working together in ...

Albums Runs loads up on goodies for run number 25, Sullivan Davis starts as Color Club’s head booker, and more.

An immigration agent killed an unarmed 38-year-old father outside Chicago. The initial narrative was quickly disproven by ...

The aging owner of a once-popular Chicago television store and his daughter face the changes in their circumstances in ...

In 2020, the Illinois Lottery launched a specialty Instant Lottery ticket called The End of Alzheimer’s Begins With Me, designating 100 percent of its profits to the Alzheimer’s Association, Illinois ...

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

Reader writer Andrea Thompson's guide to the 43rd iteration of Reeling: The Chicago LGBTQ+ International Film Festival ...

James Sherman's The First Lady of Television at Northlight tells a story from 1950 that's uncomfortably relevant for our times.

A new troupe offers a streamlined and intimate site-specific interpretation of the Chekhov classic at Berger Park Cultural Center.