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Zine Club Chicago and Chicago Public Library’s Richard J. Daley branch plan a day of vendors, discussions, and more on Saturday, July 26.

Kelvin Roston Jr.'s Twisted Melodies, a tribute to the late Donny Hathaway, returns to Northlight Theatre in a stirring production.

Dennis Kelly's solo play Girls & Boys traces the effects of misogyny within one family through the eyes of the mother.

At Comfort Station, Mauricio López F. presented “Wind Reenactment,” a solo show that utterly, magnificently fails to do what ...

The trio Black Rave Culture are all long-established figures in Washington, D.C.'s underground scene, and their tastes in ...

Lefty Parker makes quiet, intimate folk music that can melt your heart as easily as break it. The singer-songwriter is a New ...

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

A regular at Saint Hyacinth Basilica in Avondale, Godawiec demonstrates great style daily—even at the 6 AM masses she often ...

Ambivalently melancholy nerd rap sounds like it should be an oxymoron, but in Open Mike Eagle’s compellingly odd forebrain, it’s the foundation for the sublime.

Bodock's “dark if by day” draws viewers into a ceremony of wayfinding, collapsing past and present in an otherworldly ...

With three days of nonstop entertainment, including two stages of live music, West Fest is one of this summer’s most highly ...