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Born from hip-hop in the 1970s, turntablism is having its biggest moment in pop and rock since the nu-metal boom a generation ...

The scrappy, accessible, and passion-driven DIY film scene has become integral to Chicago's cinematic ecosystem.

The Independent Productions Initiative helps fund new artists and projects, and the Greenhouse Theater Center gives smaller companies a home.

The Tuley Park Camera Club began more than 50 years ago in a small basement room before expanding into the photography wing that exists today. I learned about its history through the materials left ...

Smoke’s Bistro is located at 1225 E. 87th St. and is open Monday, Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday from 4 PM to 9 PM, Saturday from 3 PM to 9 PM, and Sunday from 11 AM to 6 PM. They are closed on ...

Onion City Records opens this month. Plus: Sound & Gravity hosts a film screening and record fair, and the Post throws a ...

Graham Hunt likes to dress up his arrangements with bold details that immediately start to sound like they’re exactly where they belong.

"Camas de Ceniza / Ash Beds” by Susy Bielak and Nuria Montiel, tunnels from Chicago to Cholula, Mexico, in matter and collaboration.

I wonder if, in the coming years, the canned laughter that historicization lends these artists will be inherited by Philip ...

Butter Art Fair has disrupted the traditional pay-to-play model, and created one of the most equitable art programs around.

The Miles Electric Band, aka M.E.B., honors Miles Davis’s career of experimental genre synthesis—which proved to be ahead of its time—while forging new sounds with a rotating cast of veteran musicians ...