Out of the Basement: From Cheap Trick to DIY Punk in Rockford, Illinois, 1973-2005 is an autobiographical look at how the punk music scene started in David Ensminger’s hometown of Rockford, […]
The walls at the Museum of Contemporary Photography are lit this evening by overhanging gallery lights. Photographs of shadows dancing across hidden faces, hunching figures, barren landscapes, and wrinkled clothes […]
Three sisters. Estranged from their climate scientist father. Their lives each upended by climate change. And dozens of other characters. Steep Theatre’s U.S. premiere of Earthquakes in London spans eras […]
The new exhibition, Nothing from Something, at Gallery 19 explores when a moment of clarity is experienced through the realization of perfect peace, perhaps no matter how fleeting or how […]
It is perhaps fitting that the now final show of The Hypocrites’ season–cut short due to financial troubles–is Margaret Edson’s Pulitzer-prize-winning play, Wit. In Edson’s heartbreaking play, Dr. Vivian Bearing, […]
Last Saturday, venerable Chicago contemporary art gallery Richard Gray played host to Art Encounter, a nonprofit visual art education organization founded in 1978 with a mission to “bring an appreciation […]
James Tadd Adcox’s new novella is available in paperback and ebook on Cobalt Press. He will be reading at the Sunday Salon at the Riverview Tavern (1958 W Roscoe) on Sunday January […]
Have you ever worked in an office—creative or otherwise—where a bunch of young associates groused over their bosses, gossiped about their colleagues, and desperately sought promotion to the next step […]
Has the past week of grey skies, odd temperatures, “alternate facts”, and baffling executive orders got you in a weird mood? Well, let the sunny visage of Drake’s goofy face […]
We’re 26 days into 2017. It’s no secret that it’s starting to feel like we’re living in a parallel universe, but let’s take a moment to focus on you. How […]
[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xQ4nqnVOfMo] Elton John’s favorite new band is coming to town this weekend. Two brothers in Long Island formed The Lemon Twigs based on a shared love for sanguine, sheen pop and gritty, […]
The Harlem Renaissance was an era of great creativity in the arts that progressed through the 1920s, but the Great Depression hit many artists hard. Jobs were scarce and salaries […]
