How WBEZ Helped Spawn Seven Hit Podcasts
If you’re listening to a popular podcast, chances are its granddaddy is WBEZ. Here’s how the public radio station gave rise to some favorites.
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The Ups and Downs of Aerial Acrobatics Inspire Marnie & Phil: A Circus Love Story
A second-generation circus performer tells a semi-autobiographical tale at Evanston’s Actors Gymnasium.
What Is the Point of It All? Lee Eisenberg Has Some Ideas
Your life is a story, the renowned former Esquire editor says, so write it well.
A Look into Daniel Clowes’s Patience
A lifelong comics geek reviews the cartoonist’s latest graphic novel.
Five Great Things to Do in Chicago This Week
The Five Don’t-miss picks for Wednesday, February 24, through March 1, 2016 1 American Buffalo Theater This is your last chance to catch David Mamet’s profound, profane classic marking the end of the Mary-Arrchie Theatre Co. Carlo Lorenzo Garcia directs a cast featuring company founder Richard Cotovsky. If you’ve yet to visit the storied black … Read more
The Frequency Festival Brings the New-Music Festival Back to Chicago
Chicago used to have zero new-music festivals. This year there will be two, and the first one starts tomorrow.
Wilco Will Play Millennium Park in August—But It Will Cost You
Fresh off Pitchfork's lineup announcement Friday, indie-minded Chicagoans have yet another concert to start ferreting away money for: Coming August 21 to Millennium Park is Wilco, the city's foremost alt-rock pillar and last year's Pitchfork headliner. The show is being billed by Chicago promoter Jam Productions as part of a wider tour supporting Star Wars, Wilco's 2015 surprise-drop. The band hasn't … Read more
Tony Tasset’s Colorful Monument to 400,000 Artists Arrives in Grant Park
Find names of famous artists and maybe even your friends.
Wait, Who's Headlining Pitchfork Fest?
Pitchfork’s egalitarian lineup has everybody confused about who’s headlining.
Chicago Artists Coalition Exhibit Shows What It’s Like to Be a Queer Outsider in Muslim North Sumatra
Leonard Suryajaya’s Don’t Hold On to Your Bones opens in March.