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In its second year, a performance festival casts darkness as a site of new possibilities.

Kessler's debut album, "About Memory," unveiled two irresistible selling points, the first being Kessler’s gorgeous high tenor—which he employs in a kind of crooning so intimate, the mic might sue for emotional abandonment afterward. The other major quill in his quiver is his songwriting chops—particularly his lyrics, which, again, right from that first cut, knock you to the ground, then plump a pillow beneath your head.

Pretend it's summer for two weeks this winter!

This world premiere from Vanguard Arts Collective suggests that the best tool for fighting sexual assault is...more sexual assault.

The world is a mess. Go spend a couple of hours with the March women. You’ll be glad you did.

CAPRICORN: be as unrepetitive as possible

Can the anthropomorphic heroes of Nickelodeon's staggeringly successful "PAW Patrol" rescue the American theater by turning a legion of device-addicted toddlers into future theater patrons? Stay tuned to find out

Stephen Adly Guirgis' Pulitzer Prize-winning play is as heartbreaking and hilarious as ever.

The local premiere of this Jonas Hassen Khemiri play is a meditation on identity and community in crisis.

The facts of love in shimmering black-and-white and full-blooded obsession.

An immersive and inclusive installation probes the vernacular and strange ends black womanhood in a digital age.

Tension reigns in the geometric abstractions of Turner-prize-winning painter Tomma Abts.

In "Casual Invisibility," Jeremy Bolen continues to tackle previously visited themes of scientific knowledge in relation to empirical observation, but for this work, the material source now includes glass plate negatives from the Yerkes Observatory in Williams Bay, Wisconsin.

Tinsley's recent abstractions are packed with visual energy and excruciatingly fine details.

Capricorn: borrow from a good thing you did in the past.

For their tenth anniversary, RE|Dance offers two works that together are a spectral musing on what it means to be civically engaged in today’s complex sociopolitical climate.

They are descending on Chicago from around the globe to relate these stories.

Puppetry, dance and performance in January.

Teen Dream, hazing nightmare

Kombucha is a bubbly, fermented drink, usually served chilled and made from tea, sugar, and a starter called a SCOBY, a symbiotic culture of bacteria and yeast. And it is, lately, everywhere. Over fifty-one percent of twenty-five- to thirty-four-year-olds are regular Kombucha drinkers, and the rest of us are catching up. Recently PepsiCo and Coors acquired established Kombucha brands, betting that demand will continue to grow. Several Chicagoans are leading the charge to make this

Our Top 5 favorite design-related things to kick off 2019.

A multimedia exhibition/experience about how to make sense of your place in the universe.

We’re taking a fresh approach to our Leaders of Chicago Culture lists this year.

The contradictions within the art world are a harbinger of the crisis to come, and a key to its eventual triumph.

The new year's most promising exhibitions offer something for everyone: history, politics, photography and painting.

Let’s approach this whole New Year's resolution thing from a different angle. Let’s make resolutions we can keep, like this one: I vow, in the coming year, to drink more—and learn more about—Scotch whisky.

The holiday season just ended, and you want to go out AGAIN? Okay, here are five stellar events to keep the party in your head going.

Capricoen: it'll be helpful to imagine a metaphorical monstrosity.

Two much-loved Chicago ensembles—Sons of the Never Wrong and The Flat Five—go head-to-head as 2019 kicks off with a month of must-see music acts.

This exhibition is only temporary, and perhaps that’s appropriate for an art that celebrates the transitory. No one who loves Ukiyo-e prints should miss this expansive and groundbreaking exhibition of paintings that reveals so much about the world of Ukiyo-e.

Paul McCartney is still writing, still recording, still touring, and in his live sets he happily gratifies fans by performing a fair number of his Beatles hits. But it’s questionable whether hearing the septuagenarian McCartney sing “Help!” or “Penny Lane” has the same totemic power as hearing them performed by a McCartney avatar who is expressly seeking to pull the audience down a temporal rabbit hole to the precise moment in the sixties when those

Worldwide goodness, from Liverpool, Warsaw, Greece, Lebanon and Philadelphia.

Capricorn: the cumulonimbus is a blessing.

Adam McKay’s “Vice” is glorious, a thrilling, frightening, jagged black comedy.

Awestruck. Bell-struck. Bounteous. Beauty.

Most of the tracks from Dave Matthews’ unreleased album have long been accessible online, and it’s revelatory to hear, for instance, Walker’s more nuanced take on “Grace Is Gone,” the rhythmic sophistication and jazz-infused sax line he brings to “Big Eyed Fish,” and his hauntingly beautiful vocals on “Grey Street."

Court politics in eighteenth century England: dirty, dirty, no-good nasty, sparkling with spite.

Angels. The speed of thought. Dreams. Poetry. Essential.

Robert Pollard’s lyrics can sometimes seem as if the words were chosen at random and stitched together in similarly wanton fashion. Album titles only reinforce that notion: how else to explain 1993’s “Vampire on Titus,” 2003’s “Earthquake Glue” or 2014’s “Motivational Jumpsuit”? And for just the right off-kilter cherry on top, Pollard sometimes sings it all in a vaguely faux-British accent.