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- City Life, Public Service Announcement Oct 2, 2020
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Get tested and enjoy sweater weather with confidence
Upcoming events and distractions from our listings coordinator
- Music, Music Feature Oct 1, 2020
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The Hyde Park Jazz Festival takes it to the streets
With short sets from small groups in unexpected spots, the festival creates a communal experience that’s pandemic safe.
- Music, Music Feature Aug 27, 2020
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Chicago’s September jazz festivals cope with COVID
The city is replacing its traditional huge outdoor affair with a slimmed-down online event, while the smaller, nimbler Hyde Park Jazz Festival plans to try pop-up in-person shows.
- Music, Music Review Aug 24, 2020
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University of Chicago grad Eli Winter completes his second album of guitar instrumentals
- Music, Music Review Aug 14, 2020
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The generation-spanning Fountain of Time is an intriguing peek into Chicago new-music lab the Grossman Ensemble
- News & Politics, Feature Jun 18, 2020
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Inside the 19-hour occupation of the University of Chicago Police headquarters
"I’m fighting for my future, I’m fighting for my safety, I’m fighting for the people who come after me."
- Arts & Culture, Feature Jun 16, 2020
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The Blackivists on documenting movements
A group of Black archivists is helping communities create their own narratives, filling in what history books have left out.
- Columns & Opinion, On Culture May 13, 2020
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With college remote, students revolt
Petitions and lawsuits challenge full tuition in pandemic shutdown.
- City Life, Stay at Home Apr 11, 2020
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The Reader’s stay-at-home chronicles: days 22 and 23
What we’re reading, watching, listening to, etc., to pass the time.
- Music, Concert Preview Feb 21, 2020
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Charles Curtis revisits the first acoustic piece by composer Éliane Radigue at the Art Institute of Chicago
- Music, Gossip Wolf Feb 11, 2020
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The U. of C. Folk Festival celebrates 60 years on Valentine’s weekend
Plus: Polo G headlines a stacked Metro benefit before the NBA All-Star Game, and Mississippi Records throws the first Marz Record Fair.
- Music, Concert Preview Jan 31, 2020
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Experimental musician Daniel Wyche celebrates his 40th birthday with a show at Elastic Arts
- Music, Concert Preview Jan 17, 2020
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Local new-music group Aperiodic joins a festival celebrating the work of Austrian composer Peter Ablinger
- Music, The Secret History of Chicago Music Dec 2, 2019
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Eardance made polished, idiosyncratic prog rock that sank without a trace
Recorded in Chicago in 1982, their sole album had tons of gorgeous conservatory-trained playing but got almost no distribution.
- News & Politics, Feature Oct 16, 2019
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Three organs, one life
The heart, liver, kidney triple crown is something of a specialty for UChicago Medicine. For Daru Smith, a triple transplant was his only hope.
- Music, Music Feature Sep 30, 2019
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Photos: The Hyde Park Jazz Festival
The south side’s own world-class jazz fest played host to dozens of shows and more than a hundred musicians.
- Music, Concert Preview Sep 26, 2019
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Keyboardist Sarah Davachi brings her church space-inspired compositions to Rockefeller Chapel
- Arts & Culture, Architecture Sep 18, 2019
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Big, unbuilt plans
A civic center in River North, a concrete ribbon that split Hyde Park north from Woodlawn, and a third World’s Fair on the lakefront
- Music, Concert Preview Sep 6, 2019
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Multimedia composer Samson Young presents music from the 1933 Chicago’s World Fair
- Music, Gossip Wolf Aug 6, 2019
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Spektral Quartet’s new season takes deep dives in diverse directions
Plus: “Posi-djent” act Harm Less celebrates a new album, and No Trend Records hosts a showcase “in the round” at Thalia Hall.
- Music, Music Feature Jul 15, 2019
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A brief oral history of the Silver Room Block Party
Since moving to Hyde Park, this free community-focused festival has blossomed into one of Chicago’s most important cultural institutions.
- 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
- Arts & Culture, Pride 2019 Jun 12, 2019
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A ‘freaking fag revolutionary’ remembers the early years of gay liberation in Chicago
And a new exhibit at Gerber/Hart Library and Archives provides the visual aids.
- Music, Gossip Wolf May 21, 2019
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West-side rapper Musa Reems dazzles with a weekly single series
Plus: College radio stations WHPK and WNUR fill the weekend with festivals, and Flesh Panthers turn “flower punk” on a new Dumpster Tapes release.
- Film, Film Issue May 8, 2019
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Doc Films is movie history
And you can still see a lot of it on 35 mm—the way it was meant to be seen.