City of Win is a series curated by Isiah “ThoughtPoet” Veney and written by Joshua Eferighe that uses prose and photography ...

Chicago Record Report covers new local music that's caught the Reader's ear—including releases by Desert Liminal, Gigan, and ...

Nick Gravenites helped Mike Bloomfield and Barry Goldberg develop modern blues rock, but much of his best-known work was for ...

The longtime Reader film critic discusses his life, career, and artistry amid the release of his new book, In Dreams Begin Responsibilities: A Jonathan Rosenbaum Reader.

The Chicago native is still championing local talent while building a larger national profile; plus I Killed Andy Breitbart and a new Links Hall campaign.

Noriko Sekiguchi, better known as Poison Girl Friend, is behind some of the most lustrous downtempo, trip-hop, and late-night ...

Twenty-three years have passed since Jan Jelinek released Loop-Finding-Jazz-Records, where the budding Berlin producer transformed samples of jazz albums into minimalist techno tracks. The album ...

Little Shop of Horrors at Music Theater Works is a mostly solid and satisfying take on the sci-fi musical comedy.

Take the mass surveillance and sinister double-speak of George Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four, the toxic workplace of Apple ...

Whenever I can help make the crowd move or sing, there's a type of unity," says dancer, pianist, and singer Kopano. "The energy elevates people.” ...

Advocates, families of missing and murdered women, and journalists appeared before the City Council to discuss the CPD’s ...