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Fourteen artists fashion images of Afrofuturism, bringing together African mythologies, science fiction, technology and mysticism together in a diverse an aesthetic and philosophical movement.

Her ambitious new novel is an epic that cements Makkai’s reputation as one of our significant writers.

Gemini: Call on your gut wisdom and track down tricky, elusive truths.

John Strand's equivocating biographical play on Antonin Scalia, currently receiving its Chicago premiere at Court Theatre, unconvincingly pits the thirty-year Supreme Court Justice's entrenched conservative ideology against the remote possibility that he was perhaps a decent fella.

War and women and holding down the farm in France.

Context is crucial though not enough makes it into this world premiere, based on true events, at TimeLine Theatre.

Like the best of the horror genre, the newest play from Ike Holter, in its world premiere at Jackalope Theatre, is equal part scares and scathing social commentary.

Vincent Gallo's "The Brown Bunny" debuted at the Cannes Film Festival fifteen years ago today, leading to a colorful feud between the filmmaker and Roger Ebert. Here's a story of the resolution and an hour of Gallo's mind.

"Chiraq" unpacked by young Chicago literary artists and activists—"a vexed term and a space of possibility."

The band doesn’t cover songs—it covers albums. When the group performs, in its entirety, an LP like Van Morrison’s “Astral Weeks” or Nirvana’s “Nevermind,” it’s no different from classical ensembles that come together to perform song cycles like Schubert’s “Die schöne Müllerin” and Berlioz’s “Nuits d’Été.”

Performances with fractions of grace.

The joy of a masterpiece, once lost, now found, is rare joy. And Fassbinder’s elemental craft: good lord, will anyone ever be this good with the framing of space, the blocking of action, the movement of bodies?

I’ve just finished listening to the first thirteen episodes of season one of “I Only Listen to the Mountain Goats,” each edition of which is devoted to one song of the 2002 album, “All Hail West Texas.”

Darkly tempting, tempest-tossed Jersey-set “Beast,” a murderous fairytale of bittersweet emotion.

Noses to the glass.

Taurus, you're partway through your own process of generating a very practical marvel.

Expertly curated by Allison Glenn and staged throughout Chicago at the DePaul Art Museum, Gallery 400 and the Stony Island Arts Bank, "Out of Easy Reach" brings together twenty-four female-identifying artists from the Black and Latinx diasporas who push the bounds of abstraction.

Playing a set that touches on most all of the group's albums—including those dauntingly difficult and complex early works—Utopia has proven that there's plenty of life left in the band's concept.

South Chicago Dance Theatre's gala debut will be a celebration of diversity in dance, and create a context of inclusion and empowerment.

The variations are subtle, but undeniably there

The story is, the band recorded its debut album twice: first as a scrappier indie-rock record, then two years later as a maximal pop statement attuned to the sound they’d honed on tour. They’ve edited their material into engulfing sing-alongs that’ll thrill audiences at small clubs (like the Empty Bottle this month), but that wouldn’t be out of place on Top Forty radio.

Barbara Rossi, one of the original Chicago Imagists, is showing works that have never been publicly exhibited.

Plainspoken yet transcendent, it’s also the rare romantic comedy to earn the tears of an audience.

Curated by Sabrina Greig, this group show of three CAC HATCH residents challenges our digital present with figurative pictures with an analog feel.

This new translation of Aeschylus' play at City Lit Theater is as flat and lifeless as its cardboard puppets.

Taurus: Diversify your interests.

In collaboration with Steppenwolf Theatre Company, The Yard returns with their most ambitious and urgent project to date.

Brown writes with remarkable clarity and insight about her rollercoaster of mania and depression.

Boundaries cleave edges and predicate intimate knowing.

Starring Ivonne Coll (of "Jane the Virgin"), this world premiere at Teatro Vista is tragic and triumphant simultaneously.

It’s like camping out in some remote mountain valley where you never feel warm, and there is no one to keep you company.

This Chicago premiere at Greenhouse Theater Center is sure to waddle its way right into your heart.

Reflections on the life and work of art critic and teacher James Yood (1952-2018) from a former student and Newcity editor.

Snow or sun, May's art is looking bright.

Enjoy mint juleps, a beer or a pinot at May events.

TAURUS: The magnetic influence you're emanating could start to evoke the interest and inquiries of random strangers.

A story of grief and loss, it follows what happens after a young woman disappears.

Liz Vice has the voice (and the bio) of a blues singer, but instead sings gospel-inflected R&B, creating a gorgeous, hair-raising fusion.

Our design-oriented Top 5 things to do this May!