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March. I honestly can’t believe how fast the year is going by! Maybe it’s the weird weather that’s throwing me off balance. One week it’s near record breaking warmth and […]

[soliloquy id=”10195″]   It’s not exactly an austere art gallery environment. The walls are painted vivid colors, in keeping with the palette and imagery of the fanciful art displayed. The […]

ART Standing Up for Landmarks: Protests, Posters & Photographs March 1- Sept 4 @ City Gallery, 806 N. Michigan Avenue A remounted and revised exhibition exploring the public activism, outreach […]

[soliloquy id=”10056″] Sinkane, the main musical outlet of Ahmed Gallab, is a band of the world. His music evokes sounds from every corner of the earth, blending them together with […]

Random Sequence is a great choice of title for an exciting and vibrant show of mid-career abstraction by Ralph Coburn (b. 1923) at the Arts Club of Chicago. Organized around […]

Mookie and J.C., two black boys from the South Side of Chicago, find the body of a notorious gangster in an alley. It’s the 1960s, and while heroin hasn’t yet […]

The 20th Annual Chicago European Union Film Festival opens Friday at the Gene Siskel Film Center and runs through March 30. The festival, with 62 new feature films representing all […]

“A black woman is both queen and warrior…” says Bell Grand Lake to her daughter. In heartbreaking lines of spoken word she explains the reason behind the uneven treatment she’s […]

Last week, Pitchfork teased announcement for their annual Pitchfork Music Festival, which has been taking over Union Park since 2006 with some of the most unique and interesting lineups of […]

Last night at the Academy Awards, something odd happened. Brie Larson, who won an Oscar last year for Best Actress for her portrayal of a survivor of sexual assault in […]

It may be hard for today’s online news consumers to believe, but there was a day when newspaper columnists—certain newspaper columnists—were Masters of the Universe. The Political Universe anyway. The […]

Porchlight Music Theatre’s production of The Scottsboro Boys satirically presents a true story in the controversial style of the minstrel show. There is no doubting that the musical, which chronicles […]