If things look bleak to you, Omaha-based singer-songwriter Simon Joyner won't contradict you, but he might complicate your understanding of the darkness. The narrator of "Caroline's Got a Se…
The first time I tried on a pair of Crocs, I was in study hall. This kid named Marlin slid them off and told me I had to give them a go. Marlin wasn't known for his sartorial choices. He lik…
Enjoy all the things you love about summer with a little help from your local grocer. This summer the Dill Pickle Food Co-op is offering a series of free food demos, cooking classes, and muc…
It's impossible to listen to DakhaBrakha right now outside a political context; they're a Ukrainian folk band based in Kyiv. After Russia launched its full-scale war on their country in Febr…
"Water, water everywhere, Nor any drop to drink," Coleridge's sailor complains in the famous 1798 poem "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner." The mariner is talking about the plight on his ship,…
Looking for something to do this weekend and beyond? Here are some ideas for you. The post Taste, watch, and find your homeland appeared first on Chicago Reader.
Named for a type of eerie forest spirit from Scandinavian folklore, Hulder is the project of multi-instrumentalist Marz Riesterer (aka Marliese Beeuwsaert, formerly of Bleeder, where she was…
"I kinda got it on a whim," says Alexis P. Morgan, 30, about the dazzling two-piece ensemble she purchased from Boohoo. "I normally don't get super colorful things, but I've been branching o…
Conor Mackey plays guitar in postrock group Monobody, which is how you know he has unpredictable energy"any musician tasked with creating rogue jazz flourishes and postmetal freakouts while …
With over a hundred years of the moving image at their disposal, these creative people appear at a loss how to proceed. It's a very familiar feeling. The post Not just another remake appeare…
It's music festival season again, and of course we're still in the middle of a pandemic. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 222.3 million U.S. residents are fully v…
Most days the freshest, flakiest, most diaphanous Trinidadian roti in the city must be consumed al trunko on the 2500 block of South Wabash with your blinkers on (it's the only spot for roti…
After nearly two years on electronic monitoring, Jeremey "Mohawk" Johnson's ankle bracelet is finally off. The post 'All I feel is loss' appeared first on Chicago Reader.
Alex Ebert may be best known as the lead singer and songwriter of Grammy Award-winning indie-rock band Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros, the frontman of art-rock group Ima Robot, and a c…
After Mayor Lori Lightfoot expanded the citywide curfew in response to a shooting, teenagers spoke about Chicago's gun violence crisis and their relationship to the city. The post Young peop…
For more than a decade, Chicago multi-instrumentalist and engineer Jake Acosta has been a key player in a loose federation of subversive musicians. He's done a lot of crucial work running re…
The Chicago comedian and writer Dwayne Kennedy has a pretty raw joke about summer being "shooting season" in Chicago that I've heard him perform a few times on stage. Kennedy says, "I don't …
The New Vanguard is a creative coalition that seeks to unite Black and other POC creatives who currently work as separate entities under one banner. The coalition was recently launched by Er…
Global displacement comes to the stage with Theatre Lumina's Song of Home, one of many acts of the 2022 Physical Theater Festival Chicago that invites a shared humanity within the immediacy …
Rates of suicide have skyrocketed since the COVID-19 pandemic began, and mental illness is more prevalent today than ever before. However, the societal causes of mental illness are still not…
Growing Home Inc. is a USDA-Certified Organic urban farm, workforce development center and non-profit social enterprise based in Englewood. They produce more than 35,000 pounds of produce an…
As you know by now, the MAGA Six on the Supreme Court eviscerated abortion rights with their recent anti-Roe ruling, thus triggering local laws that instantaneously made abortion illegal in …
For their inaugural production, Violet Sky Theatre company has chosen Tennessee Williams's Summer and Smoke from 1948. As is expected with any of Williams's canonical works, Summer and Smoke…
In Pearl's Rollin' With the Blues, Felicia P. Fields gets a showcase for her indomitable vocals. The Tony nominee (for The Color Purple) is a bona fide star in the land of musical theater, h…
On one wall of the set for Terry Guest's Marie Antoinette and the Magical Negroes, now in a local premiere with Story Theatre under Guest's direction, a large sign tells us "THIS IS NOT HIST…