Long Walk Home: Reflections on Bruce Springsteen Edited by Jonathan D. Cohen and June Skinner Sawyers Rutgers University Press He’s called the Boss—and a new book out from Rutgers University Press aims to answer […]
Following last year’s successful inaugural season, the Chicago Center for Contemporary Composition begins its second season this Saturday evening with Grammy Award winning Third Coast Percussion performing new classical music that includes […]
Sundown, Yellow Moon by Rachel Bonds is a family story about twin sisters from the big city who visit their newly divorced father in his barely furnished cabin in the woods during […]
After a rather last minute announcement of a small tour, I was highly anticipating the return of Oklahoma indie band Sports to Chicago. Their Tomorrow Never Knows show was an otherworldly blast […]
Chicago Shakespeare Theater presents Isango Ensemble’s effervescent musical memoir, A Man of Good Hope, as part of its Worldstage series, in a limited run through October 13. The 20-member company returns to CST […]
“For those of you in the back, this motherfucker’s got one arm!” guitarist Andy Mosiman shouted to the packed house at Empty Bottle for his band The Hecks’ record release show. He […]
Jeff Yang’s passion project In The Realm of Senses presented Pictures at An Exhibition: Ukraine this past Friday evening at the Ukrainian Institute of Modern Art in Ukrainian Village. The unique sensory concert […]
We collaborate with Playtime with Bill Turck and Kerri Kendall and appear on their Sunday afternoon arts radio show occasionally. Next week—October 13—Nancy Bishop, Stages editor, will join Bill and Kerri along with […]
Fans of bluegrass, classical, jazz and South Asian music came together at the Chicago Symphony Center Sunday evening for a concert by four world-class musicians who performed an eclectic symphony of world […]
Early October is a time of transitions. The leaves on the trees were as deep green as mid-summer as I set out on my Saturday walk to Green City Market in Lincoln […]
Plague Vendor are not known for their subtlety, and their performance at Chicago’s Beat Kitchen was anything but subtle. Eschewing a traditional light show, the band performed the entirety of their set […]
MacArthur Fellow (genius award) writer Ta-Nehisi Coates launched the Chicago Humanities Festival’s impressive 30th anniversary “Power” season with an engaging and lively discussion on October 2 at UIC’s Dorin Forum. The festival […]
