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Coalesce’s music feels like a bitter black mass whose apocalyptic textures are countered only by the band’s dark humor.

The WCGI Big Jam, hosted by the Chicago hip-hop station, celebrates the season with some of the hottest names in rap.

Most of the time, the default organizing principle of my kitchen can be compared to the aftermath of a condiment cyclone. Counters, drawers, shelves, the refrigerator-freezer, and the second ...

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Kris Vire wasn’t born and raised in Chicago. Unlike the origin story of a lot of people in the Chicago theater world, he also didn’t move here to study theater at DePaul, or Columbia College ...

With her long-gestating debut album, The Star, east-side rapper Asha Omega speaks to the importance of self-knowledge and healing.

A business in southern Illinois sports a sign supporting Donald Trump’s 2020 presidential campaign. Credit: Gerry Dincher, CC BY-SA 2.0 / Flickr You may have heard of Nick Fuentes recently. A longtime ...

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Badri was drawn towards artisanship from a young age. “I’ve always known I was a hands-on person, since I was a kid,” he says. “My mom’s from Wisconsin, and my dad’s from Iran.