Ne-Hi’s Offers Balances the Turbulent and the Tranquil
The band’s latest album blends slacker-boy poetry with shimmering harmonies.
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This Artist Recreates Chicago's Famous Artworks and Skyline on the Etch A Sketch
Jane Labowitch, aka Princess Etch A Sketch, creates intricate artwork using the classic toy.
The Top Five Things to Do This Week
Joffrey Ballet of Chicago, Creatives, McDonald’s City-Suburban Showdown, Run the Jewels, and Random Sequence
Chicago’s Most Successful Screenwriter Takes to TV
Steve Conrad (The Pursuit of Happyness) shares the forces that molded his writing.
Filmmaker Sam Bailey Offers a Fresh Take on Young Women of Color
Her new web series, Brown Girls, debuts on February 15.
Our Jazz Musicians Never Stop Cooking
Mike Reed poses in Constellation, a club he opened in 2013 on Western Avenue south of Belmont Avenue.Photo: Chris Walker/Chicago Tribune It’s only fitting that Chicago—a city that saved free jazz from near extinction in the 1960s—is leading a resurgence in improvised music. The nucleus? Roscoe Village’s Constellation, a no-frills space where you can catch … Read more
We Are the New Hip-Hop Capital
Case in point: Noname, a.k.a. Fatimah Warner. She may have split for L.A., but with a debut that Rolling Stone picked as one of 2016’s best rap albums, this 25-year-old South Sider is the latest Chicago-bred artist to break out nationally.
Video Never Killed Our Radio Star
Among the many delights Chicago delivered during my graduate school years at Northwestern was a quirky, folksy, wickedly satirical radio show on Saturday nights called The Midnight Special. It aired on WFMT, a station better known for playing Bach and Beethoven, and no radio program made me laugh harder. During the spring of 1973, as … Read more
House Music
Illustration: Hawk Krall For many of us—the freaks and the music nerds and the reckless, shimmering club kids with hours to burn—house music offers a place of escape. House music is home. It was born here in the early ’80s, the faster-paced successor to disco, with its drum machine rhythms, 4/4 beats time, and synthesized … Read more
A New Poem for Chicago
When I Say Chicago capital city of the flyover. crown jewel of the jailhouse. a town in love with its own blood, a blood browned on its own history & funk. this hometown of the riot & the riot gear, the gang & the loitering law. misfit blocks of dark skinned cousins & thick knuckled … Read more