In red bean, an experimental film by Tianjiao Wang, tempered by a 16-mm lens, the artist observes much and judges little.

June has come and gone, and with it, one of the busiest times of year for drag and burlesque performers. Between Pride events ...

A good book can make the sweltering hours pass a little more pleasurably. So here’s a handful of recommendations for beach ...

Rockers the Puta-Pons only managed one album, but their two irrepressible front women endured tragedy and a messy breakup to ...

On “Ready,” the opening track of his self-released 2024 debut album, Ready Now, Chicago singer-songwriter Deonte Baker shares ...

Born in Columbus, Georgia, and raised in Mobile, Alabama, Fred Wesley got his start on piano and trumpet, but after his ...

Michael Miner, a former Reader editor and columnist, was truly a journeyman of Chicago journalism and has the distinction of ...

Ryan Weinstein is Coffin Prick, the remaining prick of Coffin Pricks. In the early 2010s, four Chicago punk stalwarts came ...

In the digital sprawl of sex work and self-expression, far from the boardrooms and studios that once dictated who gets seen ...

In “Living Without the Gods,” Chicago-based Indian artist Shaurya Kumar probes the removal of spiritual artifacts under ...

Twenty years after its premiere, The Color Purple gets a glorious production at the Goodman under Lili-Anne Brown's direction ...

The Chicago House Run debuts with six on-route DJ stations, Smut take big swings on the first album they wrote as Chicagoans, ...