Tortoise Returns with The Catastrophist
A force in experimental rock for more than two decades, the group releases its first album in seven years.
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The Top Five Things to Do This Week in Chicago
The Glass Menagerie, Amid Festival, Battle Royale, Kate Berlant and John Early, and Black Sabbath
John Mulaney and Nick Kroll Are Bringing Oh, Hello to Chicago
When I interviewed comedian John Mulaney in November, he'd just announced plans to make an off-Broadway show out of Oh, Hello, his sketch series with Nick Kroll. A month later, the show opened to rave reviews in New York, and today the pair announced plans to mount it March 20 to 22 at the Athenaeum, just a few miles … Read more
10 Chicago Books to Look Forward To in 2016
Chicago‘s most anticipated reads of the year, from graphic novels to grammar guides
Five Things to Do in Chicago This Week
Tomorrow Never Knows, Abby Geni, Chicago Sinfonietta, Bob Saget, and Le Switch
Four Ways the Chicago Defender Changed America
In his new book, The Defender: How the Legendary Black Newspaper Changed America, Ethan Michaeli explores the legacy of the influential black newspaper. Here are four of its major accomplishments. 1. It pushed the Great Migration as a way to punish the South. At first, the paper discouraged blacks from going north because of the … Read more
Phillip B. Williams’s New Poetry Collection Is a Relevant Read
Photo: Courtesy of Alice James Books In 2005, Rashawn Brazell, a 19-year-old bisexual black man, was murdered in Brooklyn, parts of his body stuffed in garbage bags. The horror of that crime provides the bulk of the inspiration behind Humboldt Park native Phillip B. Williams’s searing new collection of poetry, Thief in the Interior (Alice … Read more
Grade School Gets Raunchy with Teachers
Starting this week, six Chicago improvisers star in a new TV Land sitcom.
Watch Mary Beth Fisher in This Fiery Scene from Domesticated
She plays the betrayed wife in Steppenwolf’s story of a political sex scandal.
16 Must-See Acts at Tomorrow Never Knows
Catch these performers and more at the midwinter fest.