Luis Sahagun’s New Show Tackles Death and Violence in His Childhood By Emma Krupp The sculptor’s new mixed-media exhibition, The Mountains Whispered and the Canyon Sang, opens this week. Read more
Ten Things to Do This Week in Chicago In the Blue Light: Stories of India, Drive-By Truckers, Cirque du Soleil’s Luzia, A Broadway Romance, A Mid-Summer Night’s Daydream, and more Read more
I Spent a Day at Pitchfork Eating Only Free Food and I Felt Terrible By Carrie Schedler There is only one good free meal at the whole fest, and everyone knows it. Read more
Best of Chicago: Late Night Done Right Winners for best 4 a.m. bar, late-night theater, after-hours jazz, 24-hour spa, and postbar eats. Read more
Amanda Williams Turns Abandoned Properties into Art By Novid Parsi Then, the South Side artists asks: "Why do they become special when I paint them? Why did you not care when it was just boarded up?” Read more
Can the Man Behind ClickHole Make a Machine Funny? By Elena Bruess Jamie Brew will spend three months in Seattle trying to teach Amazon's Alexa speaker to be more playful. Read more
