The works in “Flaming Memory,” a solo show by Yukimasa Ida on view at Mariane Ibrahim, strike with an urgency that feels insurgent.
Chicagoan Lani Hall’s sweet, supple singing—in English and Portuguese—fueled the U.S. bossa nova boom in the late 60s.
An immigration agent killed an unarmed 38-year-old father outside Chicago. The initial narrative was quickly disproven by ...
Makaya McCraven is famous for his ambition—he made his name with a sophisticated musical approach that involved crafting ...
Donald Trump's deployment of federal agents to cities is based on the disproven claim that immigrants commit a ...
The aging owner of a once-popular Chicago television store and his daughter face the changes in their circumstances in ...
For Minami Deutsch, repetition is anything but boring—it’s a way of life. These Japanese rockers combine elements from ...
Then came the tear gas. The crowd retreated, coughing and reaching for their eyes. Those with heavy-duty protective gear kept pushing. Agents grabbed two of them, forced them to the ground, and rushed ...
The Moviegoer is the diary of a local film buff, collecting the best of what Chicago’s independent and underground film scene ...
In 2023 Closed Casket self-released the EP Death at a Funeral, where the four MCs approach the mike like they’ve been prodded out of a circle of hollering friends and have to spit each line with a ...
Kaicrewsade throws his own festival, the Englewood Jazz Festival celebrates 60 years of the AACM, and Busy Beaver celebrates ...
Mei Ehara’s music breezily evokes a faded 1950s cocktail bar with fake potted palm trees, as seen through bleary sunglasses in the ’70s.