Ryan Weinstein is Coffin Prick, the remaining prick of Coffin Pricks. In the early 2010s, four Chicago punk stalwarts came ...

Heat On is a jazz quartet led by Chicago-born drummer and organizer Lily Finnegan. She returned to her hometown in 2022 after completing a master’s degree at the Berklee College of Music, and she’s ...

Born in Columbus, Georgia, and raised in Mobile, Alabama, Fred Wesley got his start on piano and trumpet, but after his father brought home a trombone when he was 12, he got hooked.

The Chicago Record Report covers new local music that's caught the Reader's ear—including releases by Bear Mace, Cocojoey, ...

We had to bring you some of the imaginative stuff as always. Our cover story this week comes from film contributor Kat Sachs, ...

Every 30 minutes on opening days, visitors to ACRE Projects are greeted with the song of a mechanized choir in “hiccup" by Tess Oldfield.

In “Living Without the Gods,” Chicago-based Indian artist Shaurya Kumar probes the removal of spiritual artifacts under colonial occupation.

Rockers the Puta-Pons only managed one album, but their two irrepressible front women endured tragedy and a messy breakup to ...

Chicagoland research labs and community clinics are navigating illegal funding stoppages, censorship, and increasing ...

A good book can make the sweltering hours pass a little more pleasurably. So here’s a handful of recommendations for beach ...

Roger Q. Mason’s stage play and film Lavender Men considers Abraham Lincoln's love life and interrogates American mythology.

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