The trio Black Rave Culture are all long-established figures in Washington, D.C.'s underground scene, and their tastes in ...

Rabbitology is the nom de plume of Nat Timmerman, a University of Michigan student who has spent the past two years ...

Uniflora Feller and Lottie’s open. Fri 7/25, 7 PM, Metro, 3730 N. Clark, $20, $15 in advance ($19.93 with fees), all ages Leor Galil (he/him) started writing for the Chicago Reader in 2010. He joined ...

MSPaint don’t play hardcore and their synth player, Nick Panella, makes it tough to fit them into any particular genre box.

Ambivalently melancholy nerd rap sounds like it should be an oxymoron, but in Open Mike Eagle’s compellingly odd forebrain, it’s the foundation for the sublime.

This month in the Chicago union landscape, Second City actors and stage managers are enjoying the security of steady wage increases in their new contract. State-funded home care and childcare workers ...

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A regular at Saint Hyacinth Basilica in Avondale, Godawiec demonstrates great style daily—even at the 6 AM masses she often ...

The Moviegoer is the diary of a local film buff, collecting the best of what Chicago’s independent and underground film scene has to offer.

An upcoming series at the Music Box Theatre explores the work of pioneering queer filmmaker Arthur J. Bressan Jr.

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Plus: Chicago fails to notify residents of contaminated drinking water and Alderperson Walter Burnett is stepping down.