Julianna Riolino’s new second full-length, Echoes in the Dust, is a roots-rock album that floats in currents of postpunk, ...

MFn Melo, Saba, and the whole Pivot Gang crew are back together in town for the first John Walt Day since 2022.

Silvana Estrada propels her ballads with her diaphanous vocals and often scaffolds them with her beloved four-string cuatro, ...

Galil mainly covers music, with a singular focus on Chicago artists, scenes, and phenomena. He's won a handful of journalism awards; he's won two first-place awards from the Association of Alternative ...

Jugrnaut cofounder Arthur Banks passes away, shuttered house club the Post hosts Sunday nights at the New Celebrity Lounge, ...

Plus: an effort to build an emergency shelter for singles on the northwest side and the Broadview Six appear in court.

The musician uses over 20 of her songs in this loosely autobiographical jukebox musical, featuring a terrific star turn from ...

Carlson, a trained vocalist and accordionist, occasionally visited Sweden—including a formative first trip at age 17—and maintains a connection to Swedish culture and community in Chicagoland. Always ...

Hubbard Street Dance Chicago's Fall Series at Steppenwolf juxtaposes work from past and present, but lacks thematic coherency.

In 2010, Hazel cofounded Sixty Inches From Center, an arts website focused on “the preservation of culture within Indigenous, diasporic, queer, and disability communities.” ...

Bylines labeled “Chicago Reader Staff” are used for features that contain nonwritten, nonreported information like listings, for event and organization announcements by noneditorial personnel, and for ...

Bozhi Tian, the artistic scientist, believes passionately in the role of imagination in scientific advancement.