NewChicago might be a movement, a scene, or a secret third thing—but it’s got room for Thirteendegrees°, Your Stepdad, Xella Red, OkDeazy, and more.

Exhumed set horror-movie splatter to bludgeoning rhythms, and if that’s your poison, you’ll want to hook their catalog directly to your veins.

Picturing the Modern Metropolis” is made up of some 100 prints by both known and unknown artists and photographers.

Hundreds of people held in immigration detention at the Miami Correctional Facility in Bunker Hill, Indiana, have suffered these and other abuses, according to a federal class action lawsuit filed by ...

Too many of Chicago's big venues are vehicles for corporate extraction. A midterm ballot measure lets us vote for other possibilities.

Multihyphenate artist Robbie Lynn Hunsinger is best known as a musician, and even a narrow accounting of her involvements there produces a list tall enough to give you a crick in the neck.

Jorja Smith’s sultry, dance-floor–filling third album, What Are the Odds (FAMM), is the sort of record she’s been teasing for years.

Brynne Frauenhoffer’s drama about faith and judgment gets an affecting and compassionate world premiere at Red Theater.

Whether out-of-town or local, festivals give artists opportunities for networking, classes, and building community.

The work of Emma Stebbins, the first woman to receive a public sculpture commission from New York City, is on view at the Driehaus Museum.

Mathilda Zeller draws on local lore and her own family history in her horror novel, which expands on short story “Kushtuka." ...

Two estranged friends and business partners bond over booze and sci-fi in Factory Theater's exploration of science fiction and loss.