The second Sound & Gravity festival offers discerning listeners a wealth of hard choices
The second iteration of Sound & Gravity will take place at eight spaces on Chicago’s north side. Its…
American Football go against the grain to make their best album this century
American Football Credit: Alexa Viscius Discord ripples through American Football (LP 4) like the rumbling of distant thunder.…
Hit me, baby, one more time
When looking at Los Angeles artist Richard Hawkins’s two collages, I couldn’t decide whether the young man in…
Herr God summon righteous rage with slow-burning shoegaze
Herr God Credit: Courtesy the artist Herr God are named after a line from Sylvia Plath’s poem “Lady…
The unreal world – Chicago Reader
It’s no secret we live in a world full of simulations—a teeming ecosystem of Disneylands, AI influencers, and…
Two couples bare their teeth in A Dog’s House
If you spend any time on social media, you may have seen a meme involving a photo or…
The Targeted is a smart and empathetic look at conspiracies and paranoia
Last year, Lyric Opera presented Missy Mazzoli’s The Listeners, in which a woman besieged by a low-grade “hum”…
In the Continuum remains a compelling drama about Black women and HIV
In 2005, Danai Gurira and Nikkole Salter cowrote and costarred in a two-hander play, In the Continuum, an…
Le Bal gives us history without words
At a moment in American history when words chronically fail, Trap Door has chosen to update Ettore Scola’s…
The Beatles and Brendan Hunt
Full disclosure: I have yet to watch a single episode of Ted Lasso (I know!) But whether you’re…