Five Things: Chicago’s Country Roots
Mark Guarino’s new book, Country and Midwestern, looks back at when our city was a country music capital. Here’s what we learned.
Custom Placements: Culture Lead
Tim Kazurinsky
The actor, 73, on how he found his funny bone, the wild SNL days, and why he reads obituaries
How Piet Oudolf Used Lurie Garden to Open Visitors’ Eyes to Native Plants
Excerpts from a new book about the Dutch garden designer offer a look inside his famous plantings.
Go: April Agenda
Top 10 reasons to fill up your calendar this month
Lollapalooza Lineup Goes Light on Legacy Acts
The 2023 edition of the fest will have more than 170 artists to play across nine stages — both record highs.
House Divided
Trax Records helped launch Chicago’s own music genre, but the artists behind the influential label say they weren’t fairly compensated. Now they’re fighting for what’s theirs.
Rebecca Makkai
The novelist, 44, on her first bad review, ADHD’s upside, and a certain tweet about red hats
Rachel Jamison Webster Looks at Whiteness in the Context of Her Own Genealogy
“I was interested in putting the past into conversation with the present, as a way of tracing historical underpinnings and asking what these stories can teach us now.”
Memorializing the 1990 White Sox Season with Last Comiskey
A new documentary builds a portrait of a ballpark that felt like a carnival in its final season.