She Who Dared centers the women behind the Montgomery bus boycott and the landmark case of Browder v. Gayle.

This synth-heavy Chicago rock band make music for people who want to have fun even when they’re morbidly concerned about the future.

Samantha Crain's newest album has an unhurried energy and openness, and Crain broadens her folkie palette into more experimental and psychedelic territory.

Colleen Green Rozwell Kid joins Green for her set; Tweens open. Wed 6/18, 8 PM, Beat Kitchen, 2100 W. Belmont, $24.90, 17+ ...

Brooklyn-based Dominican composer and guitarist Yasser Tejeda has explored myriad ways to mesh Afro-Dominican roots music with sophisticated modern arrangements while maintaining its cultural ...

After the success of Dan Trachtenberg’s Prey (2022), the most recent entry in the Predator franchise, Disney decided to make him the creative head of the series. This year, Trachtenberg is credited as ...

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A soldier and an acting teacher collaborate to imitate a dictator in Six Men Dressed Like Joseph Stalin at A Red Orchid ...

An aging vaudevillian and a young Black man find an unlikely connection in Charles Smith's Golden Leaf Ragtime Blues.

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.

The June screening series at the Gene Siskel Film Center explores camp as it relates to queerness, drag, and beyond.

Triiip is a young poet for the south west side of Chicago with a passion for words and people. Poem curated by The Third.