Besides having a good eye for thrifting, Shelly Parks also uses basic sewing skills to help compose her looks.

The Chicago Cultural Center's latest exhibit, "Potential Energy: Chicago Puppets Up Close," celebrates the city as a center ...

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Karl Michael Iglesias is a Puerto Rican actor, director and writer from Milwaukee, WI, who now resides in Brooklyn, NY. His ...

Africa Restored (Cheryl as Cleopatra) by Kerry James Marshall is on view as part of “Project a Black Planet: The Art and Culture of Panafrica” at the Art Institute of Chicago. Using his trademark ...

The rest of the album is a blend of originals and reinterpreted standards by the likes of George Gershwin (“Embracable You”) ...

Nandi Rose Plunkett, who makes music as Half Waif, released her sixth full-length album, See You at the Maypole.

Percussion prodigy and washboard wizard Jimmy Bertrand worked with Louis Armstrong and Ma Rainey and mentored future star ...

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Math rock can be a spiky, foreboding genre for intense jazz nerds, but Chicago band Maps & Atlases steer it into more hook-driven woozy prog. They formed in 2004 and have spent the past couple ...

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