How a Chicago Lit Mag Mounts a Festival in Mexico City
Two thousand miles from home, the artists behind Make magazine have built an audience for their Lit & Luz festival.
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Local Author’s Breakout Debut Is a Novel About a Novel
Books change lives — sometimes literally, as in Michael Zapata’s critically acclaimed The Lost Book of Adana Moreau.
Frequency Fest 2020 Dials in Artists from Around the Globe
This year’s iteration includes rare stateside retrospectives of groundbreaking composers Annea Lockwood and Éliane Radigue.
Magician Trent James Is the Purveyor of Pure Lies
For his next trick, this prodigy from Brookfield will change your perception of old-school magic.
Gabriel Bump’s Debut Novel Pays Homage to South Shore
In Everywhere You Don’t Belong, Bump explores love, violence, and an ache to fit in on the South Side and beyond.
A Digital Encyclopedia of Chicago’s Black Music History
A multimedia project by Vince Lawrence retraces four eras that shaped the city’s sound, from 1955 to 1990.
Stephanie Martinez Shakes Up the Joffrey
The South Loop–based choreographer’s Bliss! examines Stravinsky through the prism of hip-hop.
Alex Temple Makes Music out of Dream Logic
The composer of Behind the Wallpaper on David Lynch, her love affair with the surreal, and suburbia’s shadowy underbelly
Chicago and the Oscars: a Long, Loveless Marriage
The only Best Picture winner fully filmed here, Ordinary People, is barely remembered by Chicagoans, but came out the same year as two cult favorites.
House of Hair
That plus 500,000 cigarettes, burned Coca-Cola, and more unusual materials highlight a groundbreaking survey of contemporary Chinese art.