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Zine Club Chicago hosted a discussion of queer zines as well as a zinemaking workshop at Gerber/Hart Library and Archives on June 17, 2025. Credit: Courtesy Zine Club Chicago Digital has come to ...

Kelvin Roston Jr.'s Twisted Melodies, a tribute to the late Donny Hathaway, returns to Northlight Theatre in a stirring production.

Dennis Kelly's solo play Girls & Boys traces the effects of misogyny within one family through the eyes of the mother.

At Comfort Station, Mauricio López F. presented “Wind Reenactment,” a solo show that utterly, magnificently fails to do what ...

Ambivalently melancholy nerd rap sounds like it should be an oxymoron, but in Open Mike Eagle’s compellingly odd forebrain, it’s the foundation for the sublime.

The trio Black Rave Culture are all long-established figures in Washington, D.C.'s underground scene, and their tastes in ...

Rabbitology is the nom de plume of Nat Timmerman, a University of Michigan student who has spent the past two years ...

Uniflora Feller and Lottie’s open. Fri 7/25, 7 PM, Metro, 3730 N. Clark, $20, $15 in advance ($19.93 with fees), all ages Leor Galil (he/him) started writing for the Chicago Reader in 2010. He joined ...

MSPaint don’t play hardcore and their synth player, Nick Panella, makes it tough to fit them into any particular genre box.

This month in the Chicago union landscape, Second City actors and stage managers are enjoying the security of steady wage ...

Trump’s brutal cuts to arts funding demonstrate the vulnerability of a culture sector tied to state ideology. How will Chicago rebuild?