The Chicago Composers Orchestra Makes a Splashy Hire By Graham Meyer Allen Tinkham, the Chicago Youth Symphony Orchestras’ music director, will hold the reins at the new-music orchestra. Read more
The Top Five Things to Do in Chicago This Week The best in theater, classical, art, and more. Read more
Foo Fighters Are Releasing More Tickets to Their Wrigley Field Show By Matt Pollock Seats to the formerly sold out Friendly Confines gig go on sale at 4 p.m. today. Read more
Here's What's Happening in Chicago Culture This Week By Matt Pollock Martin Scorsese is directing Leo's Devil in the White City adaptation, the NFL draft is returning to Chicago, and Justine Nagan is leaving Kartemquin. Read more
Here's the Street Artist Behind Those Raccoons in Humboldt Park By Adrienne Hurst Meet Nikko Locander, a.k.a. Ali 6, who's been spray painting across the neighborhood (and others) for years. Read more
Kafkapalooza Hits Wicker Park This Weekend By Zac Thompson Local playwrights revisit the prescient writer’s work in a weeklong festival of new dramas. Read more
The Five Craziest Things You'll See at Cirque du Soleil By Caroline Hicks The Big Top is back in town, and here are the wildest contortions you'll see at the show. Read more
How Tomeka Reid Is Making the Cello a Jazz Instrument By Matt Pollock The cello, a jazz instrument? In the hands of this talented musician, absolutely. Read more
Chicago Has Hit Max Festival Capacity By Matt Pollock React Presents mounts its fourth music festival in the suburbs this fall, leaving behind it a trail of traffic jams and co-opted parkland. Read more
EDM Is Over, and Lollapalooza Proved It By Britt Julious This past weekend showed how uncritical the genre has become. It's about time. Read more
