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.
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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.
With $6.5 Million Windfall, Chicago Arts Win Out in MacArthur's Reshuffling
In his September feature on the Chicago-based John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, Sam Worley asked how its new boss, Julia Stasch, would focus the organization's spending—and who might lose funding along the way. Stasch said then that local arts organizations were safe, and today her word proved true when the foundation gave the entire $6.5 million of … Read more
Three Fun Things You Should Know About Mavis Staples
February is a busy month for the ever-prolific Mavis Staples. She releases her 16th album, Livin’ on a High Note, on the 19th, and Jessica Edwards’s documentary Mavis! premieres on the 29th on HBO. Here, three little-known tidbits about the 76-year-old gospel icon, culled from the movie.