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

A musical about Larry Walters (aka "Lawn Chair Larry") makes its North American premiere at Chicago Shakespeare.

An early innovator in motion pictures comes into focus in Factory Theater's The Curious Circumstances of Louis Le Prince.

Behind a curtain in his workshop is an enormous retro memory processing server, which Salvador sometimes plugs himself into ...

The former NBA player's unconventional self-expression had an impact on LGBTQ+ people when he played for the Chicago Bulls.

Jettila Lewis illustrates games and comics and makes clothes and functional art, but they work especially closely with the music community.

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.

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.

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