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Cancer: Be more of a hero and champion yourself.

The first major survey of the influential artist and teacher Charles White in thirty-five years, this exhibition reveals White's optimism and frames the dignity of his often-disenfranchized subjects.

A commercial flop in its day, “Young Loud and Snotty” has won an increasing share of devotees, regularly showing up on critics’ and fans’ lists of essential punk records. This past year, to mark the record’s fortieth anniversary, founding band member Cheetah Chrome decided to rerecord it.

The band makes what they call “gloom pop"—upbeat, catchy tunes that make you want to dance paired with lyrics about heartache and loss.

Bedford's paintings electrify crashing waves and bone-dry deserts with ekphrastic energy.

Making power pop usually means consigning one’s career to a specific corner of the pop landscape, and a comparatively small piece of the commercial pie. Sloan ignores the labels and simply goes about the business of writing catchy songs with sharp hooks.

Goodness and kindness and even love in a pair of crowd-wowing bio-docs: "RBG" and "Won't You Be My Neighbor?"

Intimacy rushes into the story with cool command: Haley is increasingly masterful with domestic tempos.

The hectic or harried pursuit of heights is more in evidence than majesty.

Lifeline Theatre's remount of their adaptation of Neil Gaiman's novel is inventive in design and powerful in its representation.

Monty Cole's unapologetically irreverent adaptation of Shakespeare's classic at The Gift Theatre focuses on grief instead of madness.

These four stories of women and their bodies at Theatre Y make the public private and vice versa.

An ode to self-invention.

This justice-charged work from For Youth Inquiry proves that art for change and art for joy are not mutually exclusive.

Broken Nose Theatre's production of Sam Chanse's play captures the absurd melancholy of life in the sixth mass extinction.

A romance that follows an immigrant girl and her suitor on a journey through Chicago neighborhoods.

Those who are gone ensure that they are not forgotten in the world premiere of Isaac Gomez's thriller at Haven Theatre.

Gemini: "…what you love is your fate."

The grand finale to the Chicago Human Rhythm Project's annual festival was a foot-pounding celebration of both diversity and the intersection of cultural traditions we all share.

There’s a reason why lo-fi bedroom pop is the go-to mode for music like this. It’s a solitary genre, free of producers, engineers and bandmates. And when the vocals recede in the mix, as they do on Ruins' debut EP, it seems not even to need a listener.

Fairy Town—areas in Chicago where queer men felt safe to be themselves in an era of repression and discrimination.

The criminal justice system is broken, diminishes public safety and causes untold misery and death. Transformation is needed.

All four Monkees had some background in music. All but Tork had, in fact, released solo singles. Nesmith was, and remains, a songwriter of merit, and if Dolenz couldn't at first play drums like his fictional TV counterpart (he was a guitarist), he took lessons and learned how.

A restoration of Olivier Assayas' 1994 debut, freed from the bonds of music rights, materializes as at least a minor masterpiece.

A long-shelved Jules Feiffer script brought to the screen in his eighty-ninth year to dark comic result.

Layton’s sweetly enveloping visual palette is marzipan-meets-Mars-light, with colors upon colors and hue upon chroma in aromatic profusion.

Omar Kholeif, Manilow Senior Curator and Director of Global Initiatives at the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, has departed from the museum. His brief tenure was marked by an expansive global vision and increased visibility for the MCA.

Gemini: NASA used a series of Saturn V rockets to deliver American astronauts to the moon. The initial thrust required to launch it was tremendous.

Considered as a whole, “Address” presents a remarkably cohesive corpus.

Between innovation and architectural history, the 2019 Biennial, now in its third edition, has to convey a global story that’s also linked to Chicago and its history.

An enchanting story of Maisie’s quest, the tale of her curse and an unsettling look at the ordeals women face.

After acting in "Barry Lyndon," Leon Vitali retreated behind the camera to become Stanley Kubrick's faithful factotum and dogsbody until his 1999 passing.

Building a community around books at Volumes Bookcafe

Comics, book fair, Printers Row and CAKE.

5 Things to do this June in Chicago and beyond.

Kendrick Lamar heads our list of must-see acts, as he sails into town on the wave of both his Pulitzer Prize and his blockbuster soundtrack for the mega-hit “Black Panther” film.

As a non-profit gallery flees the West Loop's rising rents, an exhibition lingering on themes of gentrification and displacement makes for an ironic farewell.

Summer comes through with major blockbuster exhibitions and delightful gallery shows.

Guns, basketball, friendship and heroism on Chicago's West Side