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This June, queer youth are challenging audiences on what it means to be active in environmental justice and to participate in mutual aid activism. About Face Youth Theatre, founded in 1999, …
Jeremey Johnson has chronicled nearly two years of pretrial house arrest.
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Ankle-monitor alerts garner phone calls and visits from sheriffs officers"Âbut more than 80 percent are bogus, according to a University of Chicago analysis.
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There's an expectation for most contestants on the drag reality competition show RuPaul's Drag Race that the gigs will come a'callin'"and for those who have been lucky enough to appear in th…
If you spend any time breathing, you may have noticed polarities everywhere these days, most emanating from a belief gulf that is exponentially widening between conservatives and liberals wi…
Chicago native and Austin resident Samantha Jordan, 33, has been rapping as FURY since 2015, with a sound that emphasizes live-band instrumentation and politically conscious lyrics. Her comm…
Death metal gets stereotyped as a one-trick pony, but plenty of bands in the genre are thoughtfully breaking the mold. In the midwest, they include Michigan death-doom outfit Temple of Void.…
This year, the Chicago Blues Festival will again include shows on the west and south sides as well as in Millennium Park. The agendas of these neighborhood shows are more ambitious, though, …
In its nearly 40-year history, the Chicago Blues Festival has frequently saluted the city's vibrant soul-music legacy with all-star sets underscoring the connection between soul and blues. T…
Plus, why the logistics of a threesome matter
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What happens when your laptop dies and your Instagram followers have questions
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They were there. No fuss, no ballyhoo, but queer artists have been a significant part of Bronzeville's South Side Community Art Center since its founding in 1940. You might or might not see …
If you're looking for something to watch this Pride Month, there are better queer movies"and probably better gay porn"than can be found here.
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GoGo for the Gold"think RuPaul's Drag Race but for go-go boys"features a swoon-inducing roster of fuzzy bears, femme dancers in heels, and trans man Paulo Batista, all competing for a cash p…
The year is 1994, and rock star Jacqueline Miller (Diana DeGarmo) is zigzagging the country on a tour. Her dishonest manager has absconded with her earnings, her deadbeat saxophonist boyfrie…
Hans Christian Andersen's fairy tale, "The Little Mermaid," is a load of hooey. Consider: The titular mermaid throws herself on a dagger in the end, because she can't bear to go on after som…
Lebanon and Armenia are separated by vast stretches of Syria and eastern Turkey, but when Mary Eder-McClure and Kat Stuehrk Talo compared notes about the heroic family meals they grew up on,…
Samm-Art Williams's Home, first produced in 1979 with the seminal Negro Ensemble Company and then in a Tony-nominated run on Broadway in 1980, is considered a contemporary American classic, …
Puppets are cool, but they are also creepy. Very creepy. Even the cute ones, like Kermit the Frog or Ollie the Dragon. There is just something deeply unnerving about how puppets seem like au…
Noel Coward's 1941 comedy about a socialite writer who finds himself haunted by his vivacious (if annoying) dead wife"while his living wife first questions his sanity, then finds herself in …
Over the course of 19 jam-packed minutes, Hanson plays with the storytelling conventions of rom-coms, reality dating shows, and pornography to tell a comedically rock 'n' roll story about un…
Cannabis and creativity are often associated with one another. Many people in the arts have claimed that using the plant helps open their mind and can be beneficial to divergent ways of thin…
Queer garage-pop band Bev Rage & the Drinks have become one of the city's most entertaining acts since coming together in 2015. Mixing hilariously forthright lyrics, spitfire riffs, a…
Jordan Wimby was the only Black kid on her Beverly block, and she ate like everyone else: Lunchables, Tyson chicken nuggets, TV dinners, and frozen potpies. "Growing up I was surrounded by t…
Early experiences count for a lot. After reedist Aram Shelton moved to Chicago in 1999, fresh out of college, he became an integral part of an interdependent community of jazz musicians who …
