Dozzy’s Grill fires up a daytime West African Memorial Day barbecue at the next Monday Night Foodball at Frank and Mary’s ...

Mother Tania Whitfield thinks that Trump and the GOP proposed cuts to SNAP to fund tax breaks for the wealthy.

Historian Shermann “Dilla” Thomas debuts his new Chicago Reader column with a look at the city’s Catholic connections beyond ...

Black Southern Women Who Love Women gets a stirring adaptation with Fleetwood-Jourdain.

In Second City's latest mainstage revue, This Too Shall Slap, the politics stay offstage, but the angst is evident.

Many people know Carmack as half of underground queer pop promoters Citypill. In 2019, Carmack met Stevie Logan, and in 2021, ...

The Moviegoer is the diary of a local film buff, collecting the best of what Chicago’s independent and underground film scene ...

The onetime Chicago experimental playwright's 2006 play, The End of Reality, finds a fitting home with Theatre Y.

Third is a SouthSide born rapper and teacher with a deep affinity for words. As a lyricist and storyteller, Third is always ...

Shay Youngblood's autobiographical story of a Black girl raised by her elders in the south returns to Pegasus Theatre Chicago ...

From L: India Huy, Kelcy Taylor, and Teah Kiang Mirabelli in Sweet Charity with Blank Theatre Company Credit: Steven Townshend/Distant Era Through 6/8: Thu–Sat 7:30 PM, Sun 3 PM; also Mon 6/2 7: ...