New York City–based dance producer and multi-instrumentalist Takuya Nakamura started playing trumpet as a child in Japan and fell in love with jazz while growing up. This brought him to Boston in the ...

The artists in "New Forms of Survivance" are finding new ways to “remain themselves" and "preserve their own cultural traditions." ...

Friends and family remember steppin' progenitor Sam Chatman and the seven decades he spent sharing music and spreading love.

AmAuteur Film Festival cofounders Andy Krysiak and Luke Socie know you read that as “Amateur Film Festival.” The name for the ...

Three ambient artists will split the AMA's latest pool of grant money. Plus: Beat-scene musician Megiapa returns to Chicago for a headlining show.

At the MCA, visitors are obliged to approach the assorted works of the late LA-based artist Kenzi Shiokava at an oblique angle.

The location of "Groundwork," the First Presbyterian Church of Chicago, is well-suited to its purpose of investigating our urban foundation.

Since 2005 Plastic Crimewave (aka Steve Krakow) has used the Secret History of Chicago Music to shine a light on worthy artists with Chicago ties who’ve been forgotten, underrated, or never noticed in ...

Exhumed set horror-movie splatter to bludgeoning rhythms, and if that’s your poison, you’ll want to hook their catalog directly to your veins.

Hundreds of people held in immigration detention at the Miami Correctional Facility in Bunker Hill, Indiana, have suffered these and other abuses, according to a federal class action lawsuit filed by ...

NewChicago might be a movement, a scene, or a secret third thing—but it’s got room for Thirteendegrees°, Your Stepdad, Xella Red, OkDeazy, and more.

Picturing the Modern Metropolis” is made up of some 100 prints by both known and unknown artists and photographers.