Disclosure Day in wide release in theaters The post Review: Disclosure Day appeared first on Chicago Reader.

Mansa build songs layer by layer, with feeling first. Long before instruments enter the process, the Chicago-based collective lay a foundation through language. At the center of the band is Alonzo Sanders Jr., a 33-year-old producer, songwriter, and saxophonist. The lyrics come first, he says. Then we build the world around what were trying to […] The ...

Pleasure Puncture" through 6/27 at Ignition Projects The post Samuel Schwindt shapes leather like poetry appeared first on Chicago Reader.

The Brown Line is an emerging, independent Chicago newsletter named for the elevated trainaiming to cut through redlining to elevate the underground arts, culture, and community life of the city’s Global South diasporas. Hop on board with the newsletter here, and make sure you never miss a stop on Instagram. This guide will continue to […] The post The ...

The Moviegoer is the diary of a local film buff, collecting the best of what Chicagos independent and underground film scene has to offer. This is the third Nitrate Picture Show Ive written about in my Moviegoer column, and as long as they both continue, the festival will be an annual staple of my moviegoing […] The post Nitrate kisses appeared first on ...

On the second day of Sueos, Grant Park got soaked, and so did Gilberto Bahena. That was the summer of 2024, which was shaping up to be the Summer of Berto. His three-year-old pop-up concept was riding high on an ingenious Mexican riff on the classic French croque monsieur, aka the quesabeeriaa sourdough birria-stuffed grilled […] The post Milos Market ...

Iceboy! Or, The Completely Untrue Story of How Eugene ONeill Came to Write "The Iceman Cometh", 6/20-8/9 at the Goodman Theatre The post The completely true story of Iceboy!‘s Chicago fringe theater connections appeared first on Chicago Reader.

Dancing the Revolution: From Dancehall to Reggaetn" through 9/20 at the MCA The post A first-of-its-kind exhibition at the MCA explores the impact of dancehall and reggaeton appeared first on Chicago Reader.

Brokeback Mountain, through 6/28 at Chicago Shakespeare Theater The post Brokeback Mountain is spare and heartfelt at Chicago Shakespeare appeared first on Chicago Reader.

Smiley, through 6/21 at Open Space Arts The post Envy and emoticons in gay romantic comedy Smiley appeared first on Chicago Reader.

Uncle Vanya, through 6/22, Split Lip Theater at United Church of Rogers Park The post Uncle Vanya goes to church appeared first on Chicago Reader.

Antigone, through 6/27, Promethean Theatre Ensemble at the Den Theatre The post Antigone grasps for relevance appeared first on Chicago Reader.

Andy Warhol Presents: The Cocaine Play The post Andy Warhol Presents: The Cocaine Play offers a dark, fictionalized look at art, fame, and friendship appeared first on Chicago Reader.

Eugene Onegin, through 6/14, Joffrey Ballet at Lyric Opera House The post Eugene Onegin makes a stirring debut at Joffrey appeared first on Chicago Reader.

Earlier this year, I interviewed a retired steelworker named Tom Wells, who had taken hundreds of color photographs of Chicagos freight train tunnels in the late 80s and early 90s. At their peak, the tunnels encompassed 60 miles of track, 40 feet below the sidewalk, extending from Superior Street south to 16th. Inside, small train […] The post In search ...

In late May, a small contingent of the group Preserve Our Yorkville met in a room on the grounds of an equestrian center. Multicolored ribbons, presumably from previous competition winners, filled the room, which featured a large window overlooking an empty indoor horse training facility. The group of people included single parents, small business owners, ...

In late May, a small contingent of the group Preserve Our Yorkville met in a room on the grounds of an equestrian center. Multicolored ribbons, presumably from previous competition winners, filled the room, which featured a large window overlooking an empty indoor horse training facility. The group of people included single parents, small business owners, ...

Chicano Camera Culture: A Photographic History, 19662026 is the first major survey of its kind. On view at the Riverside Art Museums Cheech Marin Center for Chicano Art & Culture, the exhibition does not merely documentit explores the connection between Chicano photographers across the U.S. While you might not be able to get to California […] The post ...

Chicago-based Internet radio station Redux launched in March 2025, and for its first birthday the station will release its debut compilation album on Friday, June 12. Twenty acts, mostly making a vast variety of dance music, appear on the Redux comp Track & Field. They include Grand Rapids duo S+K, aka Sam Hall and Kristine […] The post Internet radio ...

On a midday drive down to Greektown for a meeting, I passed a baffling structure. Located on the University of Illinois Chicagos urban campus, in a plaza on the southwest corner of Roosevelt and Halsted, stands a nearly 30-foot high brick-red freestanding pavilion. Strewn with litter, its only visitors were a few houseless people on […] The post UIC has a ...

June is here, which means another Pride month is underway. Pride can be a fraught timefrom corporate appropriation to cops marching in parades. As staff writer Micco Caporale writes in this months staff note, Its been a pretty terrible year for LGBTQ+ people in general, prompting our official ethereal terror of Homosexual Month to ask […] The post ...