Chicago’s “spirit of creation and love of play” are helping filmmaker Rey Tang find artistic opportunities for herself and ...

Founders, friends, and affiliates of Chicago hip-hop label Closed Sessions use its 15th anniversary to reflect on the ...

Their virtuosic playing and charming, flamboyant showmanship have helped make Mariachi Herencia de México’s annual Christmas shows a nascent Chicago tradition.

Chicago drummer Lily Glick Finnegan and New York violinist gabby fluke-mogul throw it in the sink at this weekend’s Catalytic ...

The rural ambulance that responded to their 911 call didn’t carry naloxone, the opioid overdose reversal drug also known by ...

Foodman first created music in a PlayStation game called Depth, and his rudimentary experiments with the technology sparked an understanding that anyone can be an artist, regardless of skill or ...

The pledge to host eight Palestinian academics resulted from negotiations between university administration and student ...

As 2024 comes to a close, local fans can celebrate their good fortune with a stacked double album-release show headlined by two of the area’s grimiest death-metal purveyors.

At Shanghai Seminary, a new gallery in Bridgeport, two videos by two contemporary collectives are presented side-by-side, ...

Przemyslaw Krzysztof Drazek and Brent Fuscaldo conceived the Chicago group as a relatively rock-oriented unit called Mako Sica, but several drummers later, the two core multi-instrumentalists decided ...

The Reader is free—but producing it isn’t. As a nascent nonprofit, we need your support to produce the news, interviews, ...

From traditional (A Christmas Carol, The Nutcracker to brand-new, there are holiday shows for almost every taste onstage this ...