Rehana Lew Mirza's Neighborhood Watch traces the growing paranoia of a white progressive living next to a Muslim family.

Matt & Ben imagines the bromance of Damon and Affleck right before Hollywood success (literally) falls in their laps.

Nonbinary casting director and dramaturg Catherine MIller advocates for better representation onstage for trans and BIPOC ...

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The Chicago Blues Festival brings out the best in the local scene all weekend—and here are a few dozen shows to prove it.

Importantly, the contract also enshrines academic freedom for nontenure-track faculty, ceases to classify them as at-will employees after they complete their probationary period, and lays the ...

The Birth of a New Identity, 1869–1939,” on view at Wrightwood 659, over 300 works of art explore homosexuality.

Welcome to the Rhinestone Digest, a monthly column looking at what makes the Chicago drag and burlesque scene tick.

Catalyst: Im/migration and Self-Taught Art in Chicago” at the Intuit Art Museum is a celebration of such works made since the 1940s.

Connective Thread,” curated by Michelle Alexander at Ivory Gate Gallery, gathers works by women artists that acknowledge womankind's trials.

Opinion: For decades, Chicago has underinvested in transit while global cities have moved toward more efficient ...

Grace Jones and Janelle Monáe’s coheadlining summer tour is an intergenerational celebration of gender-expansive Black women for the ages.