“Friendship, this relation without dependence, without episode, yet into which all of the simplicity of life enters, passes ...

Book of Wyrms are the ultimate soundtrack for rolling a jay in a swank 70s custom van with Frank Frazetta artwork on the side ...

A trio of Sascha Huth works on view at the SAIC Galleries tackle the deeply human challenge of managing absence.

Carlos Flores’s Porta(til), installed throughout the exhibition, takes shape as sculpture, video, and wallpaper that memorialize ephemera involved in placemaking; found and repurposed “We Buy Houses” ...

Women in the music business aren’t always given the space to run their careers on their terms, but Jill Scott defies industry ...

Jeff Kimmel and Jack Langdon play a spontaneous form of minimal music with an ecosystem like a pond: It’s placid on the surface but teems with microtonal life underneath.

NightFreak's tighter sound helps a lot on Midwest Rattlesnakes, where they double down on their love of the New Wave of British Heavy Metal.

Near the gazebo in Dvorak Park on a Monday evening in June, a group of about ten Pilsen residents gathered to paint cardboard and neon poster boards with phrases including “Metal Madness” and “Sims ...

New publications like Gab, Write That Down, the pub, The Issue, and more are invoking the long history of creating outside mainstream media.

The Moviegoer is the diary of a local film buff, collecting the best of what Chicago’s independent and underground film scene ...

In mid-February, a team from DLR Group, an international architectural firm, met with a coterie of local government officials to unveil plans for an open, airy 22,000-square-foot building it had been ...

"Ink and Outrage" concentrates on 1770 and 1820, when hand-colored, single-panel etchings were the mode of the moment in London and Dublin.