After a brilliant but underappreciated album in 1964, Jo Mapes stepped away from a music industry that treated women badly and mothers worse.

The Mourner’s Bestiary, the debut memoir of Chicago-based author and musician Eiren Caffall, weaves a complex tapestry.

Isaiah Collier retires the Chosen Few with a fiery new record, rapper Kaicrewsade expands his soulful vision with his first ...

For their ten-year celebration in September, Mr. Man released a list of their top ten favorite nude scenes of all time, ...

The traveling players from Hamlet take center stage with their own personal dramas in Teatro Tariakuri's El Piélago de las ...

Unseen and Underserved,” a solo show by Cheri Lee Charlton, exposes the devastating, if not deadly, consequences of medical ...

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

In “Escaping the Tyranny of Meaning,” Leasho Johnson builds upon years of work investigating Blackness, queerness, and Caribbeanness.

To commemorate this history, the Elmhurst History Museum presents the exhibition “Chicagoland Movie Palaces: A Century of ...

Photos from the Hyde Park Jazz Festival's 18th year demonstrate the indomitable spirit that sustains this celebration of ...

The floral arrangements of Serena Madrigal effortlessly intertwine nostalgia, romance, culture, and modernity.

J.R.C.G. is the solo project of Justin R. Cruz Gallego, a stalwart of the Pacific Northwest indie-rock scene who’s best known ...