Stop Traffic on Redding Road feels like a Pan•American record, it doesn’t feel like a solo Pan•American record.

Los Angeles songwriter Tchad Cousins, aka Urika’s Bedroom, is well acquainted with the sort of dreamy Alice in Wonderland–style aesthetic of 1960s psychedelic folk.

Arty Chicago punk trio Background Character just celebrated five years as a band and they’re still just as eager to try new ideas as they were on day one ...

Guitars of one sort or another reign supreme on this double bill of local trios. Under the name 60 Strings, pedal steel guitarists Justin Brown, Jordan Martins, and Sam Wagster use technical purism to ...

A conservative journalist and father wrestles with the aftermath of the 2024 election and its effect on his relationships in The Day After.

In 1971, friends dragged me to see Grease, a musical that was getting its premiere run at Kingston Mines Theatre, on what was then the new Off-Loop theater strip along Lincoln Avenue near Fullerton.

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Jessica Hopper has been an important national voice in feminist music criticism since the 2010s, when she became the first music editor at Rookie magazine and assembled teams of top-shelf talent ...

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Last December, the Chicago-born sculptor Richard Hunt died at the age of 88. The prolific artist was born in Woodlawn, blocks from the home of Emmett Till, whose brutal murder helped shape the ...

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Spending an hour with Robert Townsend—producer-director–writer-star of the anarchic shoestring extravaganza Hollywood Shuffle—is like watching a television commandeered by a hyperactive ten ...