Anaiet Soul is a primarily jazz-trained multi-instrumentalist, performer, and ensemble member whose main instrument is piano.

Shepsu Aakhu's play, inspired in part by the 2009 Burr Oak Cemetery scandal, gets a powerful and sensitive revival at MPAACT.

Blue in the Right Way makes their debut with an adaptation of Thomas Middleton's Women Beware Women that feels self-indulgent.

"Voices of Genocide" opens as activists at Northwestern and University of Chicago demand divestment from Israel.

A breakout star at Second City, Mills directs the AAPI-focused Victor Wong showcase at the theater before heading west.

A social housing program, included in the plan approved on April 19, could change Chicago's housing landscape forever.

Two current productions of plays by the late August Wilson "create an exquisite time capsule of Black American community." ...

Chicago Record Report covers new local music that's caught the Reader's ear—including releases by Lala Lala, Sons of Ra, and ...

Screamo blowout ZBR Fest Midwest packs Subterranean with 28 bands, WZRD celebrates 50 years on the air with a free Martyrs’ ...

Emergency Group swim in the heady tides of prog rock, psych rock, and free jazz. These Brooklyn improvisers harness ...

Shootings decreased overall last year, but the opposite was true in 17 neighborhoods. Most aren't included in Chicago's ...

Democratic National Convention approaches, the Chicago Film Archives presents stories from the front line of the 1968 convention.