400-Year-Old Shakespeare Meets U.S. Politics in Ambitious Adaptation By Zac Thompson What do the famous playwright’s 400-year-old theater works have to say about our own divided age? Plenty. Read more
Bruce Springsteen Is Bringing The River Back to Chicago By Matt Pollock Tickets go on sale Saturday for the tour's second stop in Chicago. Read more
New MSI Exhibit Is Part Art, Part Architecture, and 100 Percent Lego By Hannah Nyhart Adam Reed Tucker has a few million bricks and a taste for the unbuildable. Read more
Diplo Moves Mad Decent Block Party to Northerly Island in Most Chicago Move Ever By Matt Pollock After accusing Chicago of shady politics in 2015, Diplo plunks his festival at a venue with its own questionable past. Read more
11 Ways for Aspiring Jedi to Celebrate Star Wars Day By Dana Driskill May the Fourth be with you. Read more
Video: How Does a Second City Show Come Together? Matt Hovde, director of the new Second City e.t.c. show "A Red Line Runs Through It," talks about improvisation and the importance of failure. Read more
Smith Westerns Reborn as Whitney After Year in the Dumps By John Hardberger A year in the dumps spurred the country-rock newcomer. Read more
Hold Up. Is Taste of Chicago This Summer's Best Music Festival? By Britt Julious With a diverse lineup (and $0 price tag), it's worth considering. Read more
The Top Five Things to Do in Chicago this Week Bach Week, Jen Kirkman, Mastry, Taste, and Tim Munro Read more
1960s Chicago Through the Lens of Conceptual Photographer Kenneth Josephson By Jason Foumberg The 83-year-old technical master shares his thoughts behind a set of distinctly Chicago photographs from the 1960s. Read more
