Hard times will bring out anyone's true colors, and the Hyde Park Jazz Festival certainly showed what it was made of when COVID-19 brought live music to a halt in […] The post The Hyde Par…
Flutist Nicole Mitchell and composer Fabio Paolizzo first performed together live in 2018, in a concert at the University of California, Irvine. More accurately, Mitchell played a duo set wi…
Maybe it's a given for a paper so rooted in Chicago culture, but the theater and arts preview special issues are a big deal for us here at the Reader. […] The post A fall edition appeared …
Karla Galván fell in love with performing when she was five, appearing in a public celebration of a Mother's Day performance her mother had put together. "She's like, 'OK, mija, […] The…
If you've spent any time immersed in Chicago's classical music scene, you know that one of its hardest working and most visionary leaders is conductor Mina Zikri, the founder and […] The p…
No war but Cookie War! This afternoon's Garfield Ridge Farmer's Market includes a special competition by neighborhood bakeries, including Weber's, Pticek's, Talerico-Martin, and Borinken, to…
Larry Yando has been a prominent presence on stages in Chicago and beyond for many years, including as Ebenezer Scrooge in the Goodman's annual production of A Christmas Carol (this […] Th…
It is 2022 still, so . . . a nostalgic romp through a bygone era with a whodunit twist? Bring it! Ken Ludwig transformed Agatha Christie's novel into a riveting […] The post Mystery tr…
The Chicago Children's Theatre's 18th season kicks off with Leonardo! A Wonderful Show About a Terrible Monster, an innovative production from the Emmy Award-winning multimedia performance c…
Amanda Flores is a Chicago musician, DJ, event promoter, and licensed massage therapist. While fronting metal band Rosaries in 2017, she launched Flores Negras Productions to help create new…
Lindsay Joelle's The Garbologists, now in a local premiere at Northlight under Cody Estle's direction, is a slice-of-life two-hander about an odd-couple pair of New York sanitation workers. …
Originally conceived in the mid-70s as a vehicle for Nell Carter but opening on Broadway in 1981 with Jennifer Holliday in the role that might have been Carter's (if Carter's […] The post …
Long before the term "meta" entered common parlance there was Arsenic and Old Lace, a 1939 play by Joseph Kesselring about how plays are ridiculous. It's also a play about […] The post Eld…
On Friday, September 16, Chicago singer, songwriter, and cartoonist Annie Fish will drop Weird Like Me, an album so steeped in classic alt-rock you'll half believe Fish recorded it with [……
Right before the pandemic shutdown in 2020, TimeLine Theatre presented James Ijames's sorrowful and powerful Kill Move Paradise, in which a group of Black men murdered by the police gather […
Starting Sunday, for three consecutive nights, WTTW will air a new six-hour Ken Burns documentary series, The U.S. and the Holocaust. Burns and his filmmaking partners, Lynn Novick and Sarah…
The City of Chicago Treasurer's Office and BMO Harris Bank are proud to present the Building Wealth Today for Tomorrow Financial Empowerment Weekend. This two-day event is open to all […] …
You might expect an album of Klaus Nomi material to sound like Klaus Nomi, but Man Parrish's Dear Klaus Nomi isn't that. Instead, the New York producer has added highly […] The post Pionee…
Ten City's fifth album, 2021's Judgement (Ultra), was a long time in the making"and not just because the crucial Chicago house group's previous album, That Was Then, This Is Now, […] The p…
Bridging the ultrasynthetic and hyperorganic, Mort Garson's album Mother Earth's Plantasia is a Moog-powered salve "for plants . . . and the people who love them," as the cover art […] The…
The past decade has been an odd one for Alkaline Trio. Following the release of the Chicago punk band's eighth studio album, 2013's My Shame Is True, all three members […] The post Alkalin…
Today and tomorrow are two of a slate of Free Admission Days offered by the Field Museum (1400 S. DuSable Lake Shore Dr.) through November. Illinois residents with proof of […] The post Ja…
Jordan Wimby, aka The Melanin Martha, returns to Monday Night Foodball tonight with a prix fixe plate of "classic and reimagined"Â soul food, including crispy fatback and microgreens and a…
Thanks to CNN, this weekend I went right from Lyric Opera's season-opening production of Ernani"featuring Charles V of Spain"to the pomp and circumstance surrounding the launch of Charles II…
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