He's won a handful of journalism awards; he's won two first-place awards from the Association of Alternative Newsmedia (for music writing in 2020 and arts feature in 2022) and a Peter Lisagor award ...

Tetchy are a rising Brooklyn four-piece who make dreamy, anguished pop punk, and they’ve gradually matured their style over time.

Xerobot are also touring again. In December, they dropped a marvelous video of their first rehearsal in 25 years, where they ...

My BÖC mission will culminate on Friday, August 15, when the band celebrate their vast catalog live at the Riviera.

On their newest, relatively somber songs, Stiebris and Waller repackage the intensity of their earlier material ...

Lately artist Xingyu Huang has immersed herself in underwater video footage collected from an artificial floating garden in the Chicago River.

The touring version of the musical's 2023 Broadway revival makes the story of Leo Frank's 1915 lynching feel vital and timely.

Billy Hinton is better known as a seventh-degree black belt, but he also released a string of obscure but highly sought-after ...

Whether you’re a horror-curious reader like me or a seasoned fan, the new collection Red Line: Chicago Horror Stories serves up a smorgasbord of styles, themes, and perspectives that will satisfy a ...

Paying homage to beloved pop cultural influences is a drag and burlesque staple, but there are right ways and wrong ways to do it.

Stephen Adly Guirgis's 2000 play about faith and punishment, Jesus Hopped the 'A' Train, feels newly relevant at City Lit ...

Taco Bops, aka Tshoma Pugh, catalyzed the hip-house scene and helped launch the first all-rap radio show on the city’s ...