Whether you’re a horror-curious reader like me or a seasoned fan, the new collection Red Line: Chicago Horror Stories serves up a smorgasbord of styles, themes, and perspectives that will satisfy a ...

Taco Bops, aka Tshoma Pugh, catalyzed the hip-house scene and helped launch the first all-rap radio show on the city’s ...

Stephen Adly Guirgis's 2000 play about faith and punishment, Jesus Hopped the 'A' Train, feels newly relevant at City Lit ...

Paying homage to beloved pop cultural influences is a drag and burlesque staple, but there are right ways and wrong ways to do it.

A professor faces challenges in her personal and professional life in the world premiere of Amy Crider's Buddha's Birthday at Lucid Theater.

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Abyssal Zone Collective's nonhierarchical approach to examining "end times fascism" pays off in Holy, Holy, Holy.

The state’s attorney lobbies for a forensics lab, Cook County jail’s population ticks upward, and the chief judge builds out EM.

The charm of the 2001 film Amélie doesn't translate well in the stage musical, now onstage with Kokandy Productions.

All We Remember is a Chicago fashion collective that considers every stitch—and each hand that helped create the clothing.

South-side Latino postpunk and darkwave trio Imperfections are certainly a band worth catching early in their career.

At this solo concert, part of Experimental Sound Studio’s Option Series, Kim will perform “Silk Echoes Beneath the Light,” a ...