I stood on what might be the last undeveloped piece of land in the Loop’s radius. The site of the forthcoming DuSable Park is ...
Underappreciated Chicago band the Joy Poppers made some of the best, weirdest power pop of the 90s—and they’ve got new music ...
On Friday, December 1, Ms. Staples brings her unmistakable voice, gruff and heartfelt, along with her incredible catalog to ...
Manual Cinema’s Christmas Carol (devised and directed by Drew Dir, Sarah Fornace, Ben Kauffman, Julia Miller, and Kyle Vegter) is a charming remix of an old classic, but with added layers for extra ...
The short description of all of Noor Inayat Khan’s identities during her brief lifetime reads like the title of a John le Carré novel. Yet despite the fact that her work as an undercover radio ...
A push to fill hundreds of vacancies left by the pandemic isn’t digging the CTA out of its staffing shortages, data shows.
Resavoir, the experimental jazz project of Chicago multi-instrumentalist and producer Will Miller, returned this month with a new self-titled album on local label International Anthem. As with ...
String Quartets From the Arab World, the group will revisit some of those works, which take on renewed and tragic resonance as the death toll and humanitarian crisis of the Israel-Hamas War grow ...
Bar Italia veers alternative with poppy detuned melodies and compositions so spacious they feel like they could disintegrate.
Eartheater's creativity thrives in an atmosphere of scientific mysticism where death, rebirth, and transformation are ...
Catalytic Sound was formed in 2012 by 30 musicians who desired a shared platform for disseminating information and selling their recordings.
After eight years, indie rockers Cafe Racer call it quits just as the cultural conversation runs rabid for shoegaze.