Nonbinary casting director and dramaturg Catherine MIller advocates for better representation onstage for trans and BIPOC ...

Welcome to the Rhinestone Digest, a monthly column looking at what makes the Chicago drag and burlesque scene tick.

Catalyst: Im/migration and Self-Taught Art in Chicago” at the Intuit Art Museum is a celebration of such works made since the 1940s.

The 2025 edition of the Chicago Blues Festival has one of the stronger lineups in recent memory—its mix of hallowed veterans ...

Universities are prime sites of dissent, critique, and critical thinking. And this is exactly what the Trump administration ...

When those emotions include angry despair at the state of your whole fucking species, you’ve got to play hard enough to shake ...

Connective Thread,” curated by Michelle Alexander at Ivory Gate Gallery, gathers works by women artists that acknowledge womankind's trials.

Opinion: For decades, Chicago has underinvested in transit while global cities have moved toward more efficient ...

In a digital landscape saturated with subscription paywalls and premium content, it’s easy to overlook the value of a ...

A Trace analysis found Chicago’s clearance rates are declining even with fewer homicides to solve. Thousands of families are ...

Grace Jones and Janelle Monáe’s coheadlining summer tour is an intergenerational celebration of gender-expansive Black women for the ages.

Bailey often pairs conversational lyrics with her twinkling harp in a way that evokes childhood innocence and nostalgia, and her voice sometimes sounds like she’s on the brink of tears.