The Pink Ladies got started somewhere between 1953 and 1955, depending on whom you ask, and lasted into the early 60s, with anywhere from a handful to nearly 50 members at any given time. Many of them ...

Early-70s country-rock band JD, Foster & Eastman never released a song, but now you can finally hear how great their albums ...

Here are a few more specific recommendations on Chicago-focused art books that came out this year, from art history to pure ...

Warped Tour ended in 2019 not with a full-blown national circuit but with three festivals in three cities. Two months ago, it announced that it would return with three more festivals in 2025.

A Jewish American playwright tries to unlock the story of her family's history in the Holocaust in The Berlin Diaries at Open ...

Chicago Record Report covers new local music that's caught the Reader's ear—including by Hannah A. Barnes, Look Both Days, and DJ Manny.

The Reader revisits a 1987 feature on iconic actor Robert Townsend that reads "like an absolute fever dream of impressions and quotations." ...

The Reader revisits a 2014 feature on Chicago sculptor Richard Hunt, who died in December 2023 after a career spanning seven decades.

When the musical version of Legally Blonde first opened in 2007, I remember reading more than one comment from (straight) men I knew in theater bemoaning that it was just something dumb and fluffy ...