A Kyrgyzstani man stands before Judge Patrick M. McKenna at Chicago’s immigration court on June 12 when a lawyer for the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) asks that his case be dismissed.

In new album Defiant Life, Smith plays patient melodies that course inexorably through the open, rolling terrain of Iyer’s subdued, lyrical piano and subtle electronics.

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With Prop Thtr and the National New Play Network, Vehill was a champion of emerging writers and fringe artists for decades.

Icons” temporarily imagines a different world, in which the familiar dreams of individuals with Down syndrome become palpable ...