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Brian Balcom Wants Accessible Theater Onstage and Off

Paraplegic since a 1993 spinal cord injury, the 39-year-old director advocates for people with disabilities both onstage and in the audience.

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Chicago’s Most In-Demand Set Designer

Yu Shibagaki has already worked on three plays opening here this year, with more to come. Her goal? That you don’t think about the set.

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Andrea Coleman’s Family Photos Have Secrets

The 25-year-old artist’s digital collages ask: If memory could speak, would it?

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52 Things to Do in Chicago in March

Art, theater, nightlife, music, museums, and more, all hand-picked by our culture critics

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Quiz: Weed Strain or Chicago Band?

Beach Bunny, Retirement Party, Grapetooth, and more.

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Finally, A Book Club on the Same Page As You

These four reading groups do away with the boxed wine and awkward prompt questions.

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Inside the VR “I Have a Dream” Exhibit

The much-ballyhooed exhibit that employs virtual reality to transport visitors to MLK’s “I Have a Dream” speech makes its first stop at the DuSable Museum, opening February 28.

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Jane Byrne’s Cabrini-Green Stunt Gets a Theatrical Treatment at Lookingglass

J. Nicole Brooks’s new play, opening February 26, tackles the mayor’s 1981 move of staying in the Cabrini-Green housing project.

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Mikki Kendall on the Failures of Feminism

The author of the new book Hood Feminism on Lori Lightfoot, civility discourse, and why the women’s empowerment effort has fallen short

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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.”

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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.

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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.

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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.

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A Digital Encyclopedia of Chicago’s Black Music History

Paraplegic since a 1993 spinal cord injury, the 39-year-old director advocates for people with disabilities both onstage and in the audience.

Yu Shibagaki has already worked on three plays opening here this year, with more to come. Her goal? That you don’t think about the set.

The 25-year-old artist’s digital collages ask: If memory could speak, would it?

Art, theater, nightlife, music, museums, and more, all hand-picked by our culture critics

Beach Bunny, Retirement Party, Grapetooth, and more.

These four reading groups do away with the boxed wine and awkward prompt questions.

The much-ballyhooed exhibit that employs virtual reality to transport visitors to MLK’s “I Have a Dream” speech makes its first stop at the DuSable Museum, opening February 28.

J. Nicole Brooks’s new play, opening February 26, tackles the mayor’s 1981 move of staying in the Cabrini-Green housing project.

The author of the new book Hood Feminism on Lori Lightfoot, civility discourse, and why the women’s empowerment effort has fallen short

Two thousand miles from home, the artists behind Make magazine have built an audience for their Lit & Luz festival.

Books change lives — sometimes literally, as in Michael Zapata’s critically acclaimed “The Lost Book of Adana Moreau.”

This year’s iteration includes rare stateside retrospectives of groundbreaking composers Annea Lockwood and Éliane Radigue.

For his next trick, this prodigy from Brookfield will change your perception of old-school magic.

In Everywhere You Don’t Belong, Bump explores love, violence, and an ache to fit in on the South Side and beyond.

A multimedia project by Vince Lawrence retraces four eras that shaped the city’s sound, from 1955 to 1990.