Explore the work of the queercore trailblazer with the ten-film series The Revolution Is My Boyfriend: The Films of Bruce LaBruce.

As a genre, laptop twee is unusually difficult to describe—it’s a strange burgoo of performatively fragile 2000s indie-pop refracted through a couple decades of hyperactive dance music. Among the ...

The breadth of Wadada Leo Smith’s activity is immense. Since his first recordings in the mid-1960s with members of the Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians, the trumpeter, ...

This fall, Chicago’s architecture takes center stage as Open House Chicago® returns October 17–18, 2026. Open House Chicago® (OHC) is a free, citywide architecture festival that opens the doors to ...

The term “death doula” is wide-ranging and depends on the family’s needs and the services the doula provides. Their offerings are generally practical or emotionally centered, encompassing financial ...

The title of the new album by Mike Reed’s the Separatist Party, Sing the Color Blue, may augur a synesthetic experience, but it only hints at the crisscrossing of signals that went into its making.

September 26 sees the first run of the Palestine Film Showcase at the 18th Street Casa de Cultura in Pilsen. The event spotlights four documentary short films by Palestine filmmakers, along with food, ...

Two-day twee and indie-pop festival the Windy Pop Weekender includes 90s favorites Rocketship, Dressy Bessy, and the Softies.

Even as Weaver moves around, he keeps Chicago with him. Like most of us who travel or relocate to another place, he often gets asked about Chicago’s reputation. “They’re like, ‘Oh, Chicago, it’s so ...

Seismic Waves recorded only demos, and just a few songs ever got released. But these rowdy pranksters' anything-goes spirit ...

Texas-born, Chicago-based folk artist Marian Runk has a background as a cartoonist. That perspective informs her songs, which have a wistful, vivid, and discursive eye for detail. Her work recalls ...

French Police might be the fastest-growing Chicago band with such an underreported story. If you read Jocelyn Martínez-Rosales’s 2023 Reader piece about the band’s first tour of Mexico, through, ...