You know, I originally picked the Drake/Teletubbies sun photo hybrid to head up this column because I thought it was funny. I figured others, too, would delight at the introspective, […]

  Lookingglass Theatre’s world premiere of Thaddeus and Slocum: A Vaudeville Adventure chronicles the (vaudevillian) adventures of best friends and partners Thaddeus (Travis Turner) and Slocum (Samuel Taylor) as they […]

The best of Chicago dance and the best of Chicago comedy joined together on the Harris Theater stage this June for the second installment of The Art of Falling, a […]

Among the many treasures one could stumble across at this past weekend’s Printer’s Row Lit Fest, one of the finest, and most polyphonic, comes from 826CHI, a literacy and education […]

Guest author Julia Pham is a queer feminist who dropped out of art school at age 23 to pursue cooking. After working in several cafes and restaurants, she opened an […]

This Saturday at the House of Blues, Caravan Palace will bring you a seamless blend of swing, gypsy jazz and electronic music as the band showcases its 2015 album, <|°_°|>, also […]

[soliloquy id=”5311″] Despite having been imbued with music his entire life, James McCartney didn’t start performing his own songs live until his thirties. He performed on albums by his parents […]

The front page of the July 13, 1979, issue of the Chicago Sun-Times featured a photo of Sox fans storming the field. In the background, the scoreboard reads “please return to your […]

Melissa Novak has been a chef at The Chopping Block for the past four years where she teaches a whole host of cooking classes to bridesmaids, singles on blind dates, […]

Tapped, a Treasonous Musical Comedy, is a frothy approach to political satire, featuring tap dancing spies and snitches, a six-piece live band, and songs with refrains like “Everybody loves a […]

Vladimir Ilyich Lenin once said that circus was the people’s art, and by that he probably meant that people really need some slapstick and shocking good fun to take their […]

Four-piece Brooklyn band Mothxr pounded through the Beat Kitchen Friday with a colorful synth and breezy vocals, following a set from opener Shah Jahan. Though Mothxr, “pronounced like the woman […]