Mikell Sapp achieved a career milestone as a Miles Davis-esque jazzman haunted by demons in Dominique Morisseau’s stirring drama at Penumbra Theatre. Lou Bellamy coaxed lyrical performances from a ...

The AVATR brand (brings the concept of “Emotive Luxury”) headlined the event for Changan with the debut of luxury SUV, AVATR 07. The model was lead designed by AVATR’s European design team. CHANGAN ...

CHICAGO — Angels hovering anew over Chicago’s North Side. The return of Brian Friel. And a “Raisin” we could call our own. Here’s our annual celebration of the best Chicago shows of the year, in order ...

Equity actors for roles in Olney Theatre Center's 2026-27 Season (see breakdown). Olney Theatre Center is committed to hiring actors who reflect the diversity of our world; we are actively seeking ...

Tech media is abuzz with news of an internal memo (not widely distributed) from OpenAI CEO Sam Altman asking employees to focus in on evolving the product, something outsiders have characterized as a ...

For 100 years, Ireland’s Abbey Theatre has shown that a publicly funded troupe can deliver cultural riches and hard truths.

Mistral 3 is designed for customization and privacy. Its smaller multimodal models can run on single GPUs. Mistral hopes the models create "distributed intelligence." Another open-source model has ...

Arguably no city offers a holiday theater menu as big or eclectic as Chicago’s. From the North Side to South Side and even in the suburbs, companies are summoning classic Scrooges, remixing chestnuts ...

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