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 ...

Ben began working with wigs when the pandemic hit and quarantine temporarily shut down the drag scene. Since he wasn’t ...

After attending Oberlin Conservatory together, multi-instrumentalist Matt Gold and trumpeter and producer Will Miller both ended up in Chicago.

Texas singer-songwriter Edith Frost makes soulful fusions of country rock and folk in step with moody indie-country ...

If you’re young or young at heart, you’ll be overjoyed to know that the Lyrical Lemonade Summer Smash is returning for its sixth year, having survived the pandemic and a move from Douglass Park to ...

Backed by a revolving cast of musicians he calls the Nephews, TJ Kennedy belts out weathered, sloppy outlaw country, with an emphasis on odes to working and failing while ingesting various ...

In Kimberly Akimbo, a teenage girl with a progeria-like condition wrestles with mortality and a dysfuctional family.

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