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.
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
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
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
A Q&A with Steve James
A few of the 400-plus items that members of the museum’s Harris Learning Collection can borrow for a fee
From left: Coon, Sinise, McCraney, Shannon, Allen, Mamet Joan Allen. Carrie Coon. David Cromer. Frank Galti. Tracy Letts. William H. Macy. John Malkovich. David Mamet. Tarell Alvin McCraney. Laurie Metcalf. Amy Morton. Jessie Mueller. Bruce Norris. Denis O’Hare. William Petersen. Sarah Ruhl. David Schwimmer. Michael Shannon. Anna D. Shapiro. Gary Sinise. Mary Zimmerman … Shall … Read more
Photo: Ratko Radojcic Dennis Scott, who plays the Music Box Theatre’s glorious pipe organ during silent-movie showings, says that the greatest compliment he can hope for is when patrons tell him his playing matched the movie so well that they forgot he was there. Well, apologies, Maestro Scott, but I cannot let the organ fall … Read more
Don’t judge a book by its cover, or a building by its façade. These lobbies and atria rank among the city’s best architectural vistas.
Photo: Clark Maxwell Photo: Courtesy of Jacob Kearney Photo: Francesco Villa
