Playing for years with Ramsey Lewis and Count Basie, exploring funky fusion, running a club, teaching in a university—bassist ...

If there’s one thing we know about Afrofuturism, it’s that it uses speculative genres as a future-imagining device to share ...

James Porter pays tribute to powerhouse singer Eric “Shoutin’” Sheridan, the only other Black man he knew on Chicago’s ...

Heidi Schreck's What the Constitution Means to Me returns in a heartbreakingly timely production with TimeLine.

Plus: Lincoln Hall hosts zine makers and indie rockers at the second annual Hallogallo Fest, the in-house label at Signal ...

The 19-year-old Chicago storefront company decides to call it a day, and the Merritt Awards return to celebrate designers.

Thelonious Martin's sample-based tracks maintain a connection to the genre’s earliest roots, and now the producer is passing ...

I don’t understand. stanley brouwn steps? Oh, another place!He walks. . . . He appears in places and walks maybe, and he’s video-ing while he walks?stanley brouwn steps! [Laughs, whispers.] What?

Collaging invites us to manipulate our worlds. This surrealistic technique synthesizes the remnants of our reality into an ...

Neal O’Bryan founded Workshed Animation, which specializes in stop-motion horror shorts and features, with longtime ...

When Mexican American postpunks French Police switched to a stark retro sound, the Chicago trio's audience blew up.

That is, until the late 70s, when Gene Burkard founded the trailblazing mail-order catalog commonly deemed the “Victoria’s Secret for men.” And International Male was exactly that. Its pages were ...