As a 13-year-old girl falling in love with music, I inhaled my mother’s massive Motown Records collection. Her Stevie Wonder ...

Noriko Sekiguchi, better known as Poison Girl Friend, is behind some of the most lustrous downtempo, trip-hop, and late-night ...

Bronze have been crafting hushed, cinematic tunes for two decades, and on their new self-titled LP, these soft-pop ...

Nick Gravenites helped Mike Bloomfield and Barry Goldberg develop modern blues rock, but much of his best-known work was for other people.

Advocates, families of missing and murdered women, and journalists appeared before the City Council to discuss the CPD’s ...

Artistic Home's revival of Lynn Nottage's By the Way, Meet Vera Stark delivers laughs and uncomfortable truths about race and ...

The bottom floor is the main shop. Here is where you’ll find everything from taxidermy to spell jars to jewelry. It’s a great ...

Using a mode of sensuous viewing, considering an erotics of art provided a space for listening, viewing, and framing untapped ...

The more government, the more injustice.” At Mazdaznan’s peak around 1908, he attracted some 18,000 followers worldwide, ...

Take the mass surveillance and sinister double-speak of George Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four, the toxic workplace of Apple TV+’s Severance, and the saccharine authoritarianism of Imelda Staunton’s ...

Chicago organizers have long joined together across racial, ethnic, and geographic lines in the fight for a better city.

Kerry Reid (she/her) has been the theater and dance editor at the Chicago Reader since 2019. Graduating from Columbia College ...