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Copeland has been a rising star for years that belies her youth as compared to the “old souls” of the blues community. Her debut record dropped twenty years ago, but she won’t turn forty until next year. Her eighth album is this year’s most important record, if not necessarily the best (although it’s close).

Chicago filmmaker Bill Siegel.

Theo Ubique christens their new home in Evanston with a production that shows just how far they haven't come.

SAGITTARIUS: do remarkable things.

Romance as self-seduction.

“Sacred Smokes” is a major contribution to Bottom-dog Urban Realism.

The ten-man a cappella ensemble got its start in the mid-1990s at Indiana University. But unlike more stuffy and serious-minded outfits, the musically expert Straight No Chaser has always been built on a foundation that suffuses its arrangements with both modernity and humor.

This multidisciplinary performance at the MCA's off-site warehouse space addresses issues of race, opposition, hostility, identity and disappearance, bringing into question what it means to be simultaneously surveyed and ignored as a black person in society.

This world premiere at Strawdog Theatre Company provides much-needed holiday fare for families of the non-Noel persuasion.

The series is dedicated to new works created by members of the company.

This exhibition of photography, films and art books traces Chicago’s role in Ishimoto's studies and professional work and how that would influence Japanese photography and photo publishing.

SAGITTARIUS: produce some robust and interesting creation in the coming weeks.

Christopher Wheeldon’s well-crafted choreography is framed by theatrical sets which, while minimalistic in design, use projection and lighting to conjure a sense of depth and scale that is both literally and figuratively larger than life.

Midsommer Flight continues its holiday tradition of staging this Shakespeare classic amidst the flora of the Lincoln Park Conservatory.

Savage grace, restored to bleak beauty.

Co-founders Kevin Iega Jeff and Gary Abbott have been making and presenting dances that celebrate community.

“Roma” is about childhood memories as concrete, as elusive, as dreams.

There are just not enough laughs to sustain the premise of this self-consciously Mormon-centered musical.

"How can we have faith in humanity when our own survival is at risk?" Ruben Quesada thinks about love, sexuality and the human spirit.

The restaurant where you want to eat at Christmas time is German, and there’s a case to be made for Christmas, as we know it, being invented in Germany. Kris Kringle, the Christmas feast, gingerbread, all can be traced to German origins.

Winter literary delights in Chicago.

Radiohead front man Thom Yorke's solo show, featuring “experimental cellist” Oliver Coates, headlines a month of indispensable performances by Birds of Chicago, Noname, Hamid Drake and Travis Scott.

There's stuff to do in Chicago in December. No, really, there is.

Wrightwood 659 is the Lincoln Park neighborhood's new architecture and design destination.

Teen Dream, sushi nightmare

The eleventh year of the Chicago-based arts philanthropic powerhouse's annual awards reaffirms the organization's commitment to supporting women artists, artists of color, and artists with disabilities.

Pictures of cats and plants might be common online, but Eichhorn's collages elevate flora and fauna to aesthetic delights.

At this time of year American culture narrows into a singular focus.

Nine designers pick nine designers you should know: An introduction by Michael Jefferson

Nine designers pick nine designers you should know

Your holiday guide to December's Design Top 5.

Nine designers pick nine designers you should know

Nine designers pick nine designers you should know

Nine designers pick nine designers you should know

Nine designers pick nine designers you should know

Restorations rule the roost, with Siskel's smorgasboard smacking on "Detour," "Wings of Desire" and "Andrei Rublev," while the Music Box goes yo-ho-ho for thirty-five with the Christmas Singalong, "White Christmas" and "It's a Wonderful Life." And Clint Eastwood, at 88, directs himself once more as a wizened, if not wise codger daring the law.

Discarded materials of commercial film photography, often used for light and color testing, often in the form of slides, provide Greenberger the materials for her collage and multi-media based works. This exhibition sources the ephemera of pre-digital photography in service to a highly advanced, process-based post-digital printing practice.

Round out the year with Chicago's most promising exhibitions and art events.

The artist's fourth solo exhibition at Monique Meloche imagines gardens as the site of race, class and power relations in a postcolonial world.

SAGITTARIUS: Simply use smart strategy.