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Police and security are meant to keep concertgoers safe, but what happens when they do more harm than good? In summer 2020, as America reckoned with…
I can’t imagine summer in Chicago without the Chosen Few Picnic & Festival, and that’s not just because this grassroots house-music gathering is celebrating its 30th…
Baz Luhrmann’s Elvis is a maximalist dream. It’s a loosely focused biopic of one of America’s greatest musical creations that jumps and shimmies through the early…
A person is more than the sum of their parts, but sometimes it is crucial to examine the parts so the sum can be better understood.…
Last Saturday night at the House of Wah Sun in North Center, Mark Chiang lingered at the table of a few of the night’s last customers.…
Since 2018, the Chicago Soul Jazz Collective has made waves in town by resurrecting the stylish grooves of the postbop era, which began in the late…
On the cover: photo illustration by Dylan Bragassa. For more of Bragassa’s work, go here. This is the first time we’ve done a summer theater and…
Here’s some events and activities to close out the month of June and start the summer right. FRI 6/24 Today the Chicago Park District cut the…
In February, teenage Chicago indie rockers Dwaal Troupe contributed a tender, dusty tune called “Everyone Forgot but You” to Porcelain Songs, a 30-track compilation made by…
“My dear boy, why don’t you try acting?” Laurence Olivier’s quippy response to Dustin Hoffman’s story of how he stayed up three nights to fully inhabit…