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Arts & Culture, Art Feature Jun 13, 2019
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From the Bubbly Creek festival to sculptures made from straws

A roundup of art events happening this weekend
- By S. Nicole Lane
- Tags: Art Feature, Bridgeport, performance art, Bubbly Creek, labor, immigrant labor, Zhou B Art Center, Defibrillator Gallery, south side, Pride Month, Gerber Hart Library & Archives, archives, LGBTQ, queer art, Out of the Closets & Into the Exhibits, Stonewall Riots, Smart Museum, Hyde Park, University of Chicago, Tara Donovan, sculpture, Chicago Art Department, LGBTQ, Muscle Memories, painting, Video

Blogs, Bleader Mar 17, 2017
The Tossers' Saint Patrick's Day show, Good Food Festival, and more things to do in Chicago this weekend

"The Kurt Russell Art Show," the Divine Feminine, and more happenings from March 17-19.
- By Brianna Wellen
- Tags: Arts, Do This, The Kurt Russell Art Show, Peanut Gallery, the Tossers, Metro, In/Motion, Loyola University Chicago, Good Food Festival, UIC Forum, Solo Crowd, Chicago Art Department, Ghost Planet, Township, Trashed, Aloft Circus Arts, Winifred Haun, Chicago Architecture Foundation, Lego Build Workshop, the Divine Feminine, Party Noire, the Promontory, Dungen, Garfield Park Conservatory

Blogs, Bleader Feb 13, 2017
Trayvon Martin’s parents on their book Rest in Power, Brown Girls premiere, and more things to do in Chicago this week

Metal from Lordi, Joffrey Ballet's Game Changers, and more happenings from February 13-16
- By Brianna Wellen
- Tags: Arts, Do This, Fake News, Buzzfeed, University of Chicago, Erotica Exotica Poetica, Hideout, Women on Top, pH Theater, Lordi, Reggie's Rock Club, Brown Girls, Chicago Art Department, Farewell Father Friend, Newberry Library, Joffrey Ballet, Game Changers, Rest In Power, The Enduring Life of Trayvon Martin, First United Methodist Church, Sybrina Fulton, Tracy Martin, Benefit for the American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee, Township

Arts & Culture, Feature Feb 3, 2017
Video
Women of color call the shots in the Chicago-based webseries Brown Girls

A mostly female cast and crew come together to tell the story of the friendship between writer Fatimah Asghar and musician Jamila Woods.
- By Brianna Wellen
- Tags: Feature, Fatimah Asghar, Jamila Woods, Sam Bailey, Brown Girls, webseries, comedy, Open TV, Aymar Jean Chrstian, Nabila Hossain, Sonia Denis, Pilsen, Pakistan, Chicago Art Department, Video

Arts & Culture, Calendar Oct 24, 2016
More than three dozen of the best Halloween 2016 events

A ghoulish brunch, a costume parade, and more spooky things to do.
- Tags: Calendar, Halloween 2016, Another 90s Halloween Party, Beauty Bar, Bowie Night 2: Son of Bowie, Crown Liquors, Bric-a-Brac’s Halloween Brunch, Empty Bottle, Bye Bye Liver: Drink or Treat, Public House theatre, Carmine's Friday Fright Fest, Carmine's, Dia de los Muertos, Chicago Sinfonietta, Symphony Center, National Museum of Mexican Art, Day of the Dead, Death Toll, Cornservatory, The Fame Monster Mash, Berlin, Glitter Ghoul Halloween, Late Bar, East Room, Beat Kitchen, Rachal Duggan, Comfort Station, Untitled Supper Club, Hallowzine, Chicago Publishers Resource Center, Cafe Brauer, Haunted Hotel, Emporium Arcade Bar, Evanston History Center, Heltrap Nightmare, Hideout, Fabulous Ladies of Fitness, Cole's, Hog-lloween, Frontier, Howl-o-ween, Sit Social, La Casa de Santanas, Little Bash of Horrors, Bottom Lounge, Mama's Boy, A Memory Place of Fear, Silent Funny, Nightmares on Lincoln Ave., Northalsted Halloween Parade, Pay 2 Slay, Peek-A-Boo, Uptown Underground, Porn and Chicken, Halloween Banger, Evil Olive, Race of the Dead 5K, Scare You Very Much, Chicago Art Department, Spooky Zoo Spectacular, Lincoln Park Zoo, Too Much Fright Makes the Baby Go Blind, Whores of Horror

Arts & Culture, Performing Arts Feature Apr 20, 2016
Dreamgirls, Dead Man Walking, The Few, and ten more new theater reviews

Porchlight wows, Piven Theatre crusades, and Steep Theatre goes hard-core American.
- Tags: Performing Arts Feature, The Book Club Play, Karen Zacarias, 16th Street Theater, Kevin Christopher Fox, Ann Filmer, Brad Harbaugh, Piven Theatre, Dead Man Walking, Sister Helen Prejean, Tim Robbins, Patricia Lavery, Jay Reed, Mikalina Rabinsky, Black Ensemble Theater, Dionne Warwick, Jackie Taylor, Rueben D. Echoles, Burt Bacharach and Hal David, Dreamgirls, Porchlight Music Theatre, Brenda Didier, Effie White, Evan Tyrone Martin, Eric Lewis, The Few, Steep Theatre, Samuel D. Hunter, Peter Moore, Dana Black, Travis Coe, Eclipse Theatre, Jesus Hopped the "A" Train, Anish Jethmalani, Stephen Adly Giurgis, Elizabeth Birnkrant, Johnathan Nieves, The Kinematics, Mark Ravenhill, Pool (No Water), Milkwhite, Anthony Kochensparger, Chris Smith, Chicago Art Department, Strangeloop Theatre, Mitera, Maria Burnham, Othello: The Remix, Chicago Shakespeare Theater, Jeffrey Qaiyum, Gregory Qaiyum, Q Brothers, Shakespeare, Postell Pringle, Jackson Doran, Tympanic Theatre, Paper City Phoenix, Walt McGough, Rebecca Willingham, Rogue Theater, Pygmalion, Right Brain Project, George Bernard Shaw, Nate White, Nellie Ognacevic, The Other Theatre Company, The Realm, Sarah Myers, Kelly Howe, Trash!, New American Folk Theatre, Anthony Whitaker, Jamal Howard, Johnny Drago

Blogs, Bleader Apr 8, 2016
Chicago Art Department's Crystal Ball, CHIRP Record Fair, and more things to do this weekend

CAKE Art Auction, a Tremors lecture at Music Box, and more happenings from April 8-10
- By Brianna Wellen
- Tags: Arts, Do This, CAKE Art Auction, Hideout, Wiggle Room, City Winery, Black Women's Expo, McCormick Place, CHIRP Record Fair, Plumbers Hall, Speed Dating for Mom Friends, Longest Shortest Time, the Grafton, Chicago Art Department, Crystal Ball, Lincoln Hall, Fictlicious, Tremors, Music Box

Blogs, Bleader Apr 5, 2013
Reader's Agenda Fri 4/5: Level-Up Magazine, Todd Diedrich, and Chelsea Prince

What's on the Reader's Agenda for Friday, April 5, 2013
- By Drew Hunt
- Tags: Do This, Arts, Level-Up Magazine, Chicago Art Department, Kembe X, Alex Wiley, Sybris, Bottom Lounge, 3 Floyds, Dungeons & Dragons, Rabid Rabbit, Killer Moon, Voyage of the Stag Party, Book Cellar, Chelsea Prince, Rock and Vine: Next Generation Changemakers in America's Wine Country, Mary Steinbacher, New York Times, Meiomi, Rock and Vine, Parallel

Film, Artist on Artist Jan 29, 2013
Artist on Artist: Shabazz Palaces

Ishmael Butler of the Seattle rap collective talks to the GTW about hometown hip-hop, signing to Sub Pop, and Chief Keef.
- By Leor Galil
- Tags: Artist on Artist, Shabbazz Palaces, Digable Planets, Tendai "Baba" Maraire, Bengfang, Ishmael Butler, The GTW, James King, Sub Pop, Chief Keef, rap, hip-hop, Chicago hip-hop, Seattle hip-hop, Seattle, the Shrine, Chicago Art Department

Blogs, Bleader Sep 14, 2010
Video
Chicago Motion Graphics Festival

The Chicago Motion Graphics Festival showcases technological art with screenings, performances, workshops and parties, Sept Wednesday-Sunday at multiple venues.
- By Ed M. Koziarski
- Tags: Film, Music, Visual Art, Free Shit, Swag, MGFest, Motion Graphics Festival, Psymbolic, Columbia College, Rodan, Chicago Art Department, Darrin Frankovitz, Cineversity, Chicago Cultural Center, Lumen Eclipse, Benn Jordan, Flashbulb, Richard Devine, Royksopp, Herzog & de Meuron, Lucas Arts, N.A.S.A., TOm Waits, Kanye West, Basement Jaxx, Warp Records, Ninja Tune, Puma, Max Hatter, Tantrum, Video

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From the Bubbly Creek festival to sculptures made from straws

A roundup of art events happening this weekend

The Tossers' Saint Patrick's Day show, Good Food Festival, and more things to do in Chicago this weekend

"The Kurt Russell Art Show," the Divine Feminine, and more happenings from March 17-19.

Trayvon Martin’s parents on their book Rest in Power, Brown Girls premiere, and more things to do in Chicago this week

Metal from Lordi, Joffrey Ballet's Game Changers, and more happenings from February 13-16

Video
Women of color call the shots in the Chicago-based webseries Brown Girls

A mostly female cast and crew come together to tell the story of the friendship between writer Fatimah Asghar and musician Jamila Woods.

More than three dozen of the best Halloween 2016 events

A ghoulish brunch, a costume parade, and more spooky things to do.

Dreamgirls, Dead Man Walking, The Few, and ten more new theater reviews

Porchlight wows, Piven Theatre crusades, and Steep Theatre goes hard-core American.

Chicago Art Department's Crystal Ball, CHIRP Record Fair, and more things to do this weekend

CAKE Art Auction, a Tremors lecture at Music Box, and more happenings from April 8-10

Reader's Agenda Fri 4/5: Level-Up Magazine, Todd Diedrich, and Chelsea Prince

What's on the Reader's Agenda for Friday, April 5, 2013

Artist on Artist: Shabazz Palaces

Ishmael Butler of the Seattle rap collective talks to the GTW about hometown hip-hop, signing to Sub Pop, and Chief Keef.

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Chicago Motion Graphics Festival

The Chicago Motion Graphics Festival showcases technological art with screenings, performances, workshops and parties, Sept Wednesday-Sunday at multiple venues.

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A roundup of art events happening this weekend

"The Kurt Russell Art Show," the Divine Feminine, and more happenings from March 17-19.

Metal from Lordi, Joffrey Ballet's Game Changers, and more happenings from February 13-16

A mostly female cast and crew come together to tell the story of the friendship between writer Fatimah Asghar and musician Jamila Woods.

A ghoulish brunch, a costume parade, and more spooky things to do.

Porchlight wows, Piven Theatre crusades, and Steep Theatre goes hard-core American.

CAKE Art Auction, a Tremors lecture at Music Box, and more happenings from April 8-10

What's on the Reader's Agenda for Friday, April 5, 2013

Ishmael Butler of the Seattle rap collective talks to the GTW about hometown hip-hop, signing to Sub Pop, and Chief Keef.

The Chicago Motion Graphics Festival showcases technological art with screenings, performances, workshops and parties, Sept Wednesday-Sunday at multiple venues.

Other Searches