The 2025 Chicago Underground Film Festival contends with ‘potential forms of consciousness entirely different.’ ...

In the same way that our current government is leaving deep cuts, the art created to oppose it today will help form healing scars.

Jay Villalobos’s Spectacular Optical Corporation film festival features experimental, microbudget digital shorts.

On August 17, Magic Feifei and Isaac Duan performed a marriage ceremony at Shanghai Seminary, reminding us of what we may owe to one another.

Kaicrewsade throws his own festival, the Englewood Jazz Festival celebrates 60 years of the AACM, and Busy Beaver celebrates ...

The body is a battleground for the construction of meaning—a process brought to the forefront in "Bodybuilder" at Point Blank ...

Kristoffer Diaz's Things With Friends at American Blues Theater is a dark comedy about disaster capitalism and friendship.

Plus: city officials evict unhoused residents from Legion Park, IDOC wants to ban most physical mail, and more.

Somewhere in the blur of the past decade, Philadelphia singer-songwriter Alex G became a rare indie-rock success story, ...

A New Orleans mobster shares tales of his nefarious career in Subtext Theater Company's Uncle Carlos Explains.

American Dream Reflector, a project by Yun Lee and Ian Kang, recently at the OH Art Foundation, inverts the nightclub's utopic spirit.

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