Here are a few more specific recommendations on Chicago-focused art books that came out this year, from art history to pure ...

The Pink Ladies got started somewhere between 1953 and 1955, depending on whom you ask, and lasted into the early 60s, with anywhere from a handful to nearly 50 members at any given time. Many of them ...

A Jewish American playwright tries to unlock the story of her family's history in the Holocaust in The Berlin Diaries at Open ...

Warped Tour ended in 2019 not with a full-blown national circuit but with three festivals in three cities. Two months ago, it announced that it would return with three more festivals in 2025.

Spending an hour with Robert Townsend—producer-director–writer-star of the anarchic shoestring extravaganza Hollywood Shuffle—is like watching a television commandeered by a hyperactive ten ...

This collection of five pieces showcases the ambition and drive of rising composer Hannah A. Barnes; its sparse soundscapes use canonlike spiral patterns, nonlinear motion inspired by fungal ...

When the musical version of Legally Blonde first opened in 2007, I remember reading more than one comment from (straight) men I knew in theater bemoaning that it was just something dumb and fluffy ...

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Last December, the Chicago-born sculptor Richard Hunt died at the age of 88. The prolific artist was born in Woodlawn, blocks from the home of Emmett Till, whose brutal murder helped shape the ...