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Revitalized south-side club Lee's Unleaded Blues has reopened in time for the biggest blues weekend of the year.

Ciera McKissick calls cam.contemporarie a “micro-gallery” and a self-directed curatorial residency and experimental exhibition model.

As the first birth center on Chicago’s south side, the midwife- and doula-led staff hope the clinic will be a community space for all.

Before the deluge: Back of the Yards Neighborhood Council’s Ballet Folklorico performs at See Chicago Dance’s 2024 Chicago ...

Gilberto Bahena has already been initiated into the Sacred Order of Mary Stark. He knows the secret handshake. He sat stoically for the ecstatic agony of the hidden meat loaf tattoo. And he always ...

There’s a lot of hope for Glen Powell, and lots of energy—from studios, directors, publicists, even critics—behind the idea of him as the next great Hollywood star. Untainted thus far by superhero ...

Bad Boys: Ride or Die, the fourth installment in the franchise, finds the buddy cop duo of Mike Lowrey (Will Smith) and Marcus Burnett (Martin Lawrence) a bit older but not at all wiser. Narratively, ...

In an era when collective, in-person viewing is in a tenuous state, Young Woman and the Sea is what we call a straight-to-streaming movie. There’s certainly little that’s objectionable about the story ...

The Critics Choice Association will honor queer film and television artists with a new awards ceremony on June 7.

After outlaw rockers the Pearl Handle Band cut their only album in 1980, their label folded and the recording was ...

Chicago jazz singer Dee Alexander honors Dinah Washington with a centennial revue at the Chicago Blues Festival.