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Preview: Riot Fest Reveals Big 2026 Lineup Featuring Tool, Alanis Morissette, and More

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Preview: Tony-Award-Winning American Players Theatre Prepares Season of Classic and Contemporary Plays in Wisconsin

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Review: Into the Trees—Her Place in the Woods: The Life of Helen Hoover, by David Hakensen

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  • Music , Previews

Preview: Riot Fest Reveals Big 2026 Lineup Featuring Tool, Alanis Morissette, and More

The Internet has been ablaze with anticipation and speculation for months on when the Riot Fest lineup would drop and who exactly would be on it. A little bit of […]

  • Julian Ramirez
  • May 28, 2026
    • Front page

    Your Chicago Curated Weekend: 5/28 and Beyond

    It’s the end of the month and the events are overflowing! If you didn’t think we were in festival/markets/concert season then this weekend is here to prove you wrong! It’s […]

  • Julian Ramirez
  • May 28, 2026
    • Games & Tech , Review

    Review: Remake of the End of the Greatest RPG of All Time

    I’ve always been a fan of when YouTubers and streamers find old memory cards from retro consoles, and pick up saved games where the previous owner left off. It’s a […]

  • Antal Bokor
  • May 28, 2026
    • Lit , Poetry

    Review: Upcoming Piżama Press Spring Releases: John’s Table and Split, Game of Little Deaths

    In 2025, Chicago-based independent publisher, Piżama Press (piżama is Polish for Pajamas) released their debut title, Disintegration Made Plain and Easy by Kiik Araki-Kawaguchi. Their first book set the precedent […]

  • Tori Rego
  • May 28, 2026
    • Feature , Live Lit , Stages

    Feature: Miss Spoken Keeps Women’s Stories Alive With Monthly “Lady Live Lit” Events

    Live lit is alive and well in Chicago, with many iterations and variations. There’s the weekly Paper Machete at the Green Mill. The Moth continues at various locations. There’s Tenx9 […]

  • Nancy S Bishop
  • May 27, 2026
    • Preview , Stages , Theater , Theater Festival

    Preview: Tony-Award-Winning American Players Theatre Prepares Season of Classic and Contemporary Plays in Wisconsin

    If you’ve been waiting to visit the lush, green countryside of rural Spring Green, Wisconsin, home of American Players Theatre (APT), this year’s recent news may encourage you to schedule […]

  • Anne Siegel
  • May 27, 2026
    • Fiction , Interviews , Lit

    Interview: Raghav Rao Never Fails in Missy

    In his debut novel, Missy, Raghav Rao keeps one foot in India and one foot in Chicago. A tale of immigration, family, and the love of place—homeland or not. His […]

  • Caroline Huftalen
  • May 27, 2026
    • Lit , Nonfiction

    Review: Into the Trees—Her Place in the Woods: The Life of Helen Hoover, by David Hakensen

    I restrict my relationship with Nature to short forest preserve visits. I prefer my body sheltered, my water tapped, and my immediate environment free from things that might kill, injure, […]

  • Dan Kelly
  • May 26, 2026
    • Music , Photos

    Photos: Warm Love Cool Dreams Makes the Salt Shed Feel Special

    This past weekend Warm Love Cool Dreams took over the entire Salt Shed campus for two days of incredible music. The festival, whose first edition took place back in 2024, […]

  • Julian Ramirez
  • May 26, 2026
    • Classical , Music , Previews

    Preview: Inside Conrad Tao’s Expanding Musical World

    There is an old home video of Conrad Tao that captures the modest beginnings of a prodigy. In the footage, a very young Tao sits at the piano, pawing out […]

  • Zach Carstensen
  • May 26, 2026
    • Film & TV , Review , Television

    Recap: Survivor 50 Episode 13: Jeff Probst’s Spoiler Spices Up a Predictable Finale

    After 50 seasons, one would be forgiven for assuming that, outside of convoluted twists, there would never be another Survivor first. Most of the noteworthy records occurred during the show’s […]

  • Anthony Cusumano
  • May 25, 2026
    • Film & TV , Review , Television

    Recap: Survivor 50 Episode 12: And Now For Something Completely Unsatisfying

    What a difference a decade makes. Ten years ago, heading into the finale of her first season, Aubry Bracco was the fan favorite, beginning Survivor: Kaoh Rong as an unstable […]

  • Anthony Cusumano
  • May 25, 2026
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