“The Sea and the Sky, and You and I,” an art exhibition on display through August 30 at the Shepherd, is inspired by Detroit’s landscape, reports the Detroit Free Press. The exhibition features twenty ...

ARIES (March 21-April 19): Your definition of home is due for revamping, deepening and expansion. Your sense of where you truly belong is ripe to be adjusted and perhaps even revolutionized. A ...

Though it wasn't planned this way, there's a thread through most of the feature stories in this issue that's personal for me, ...

Ox-Bow School of Art and Artists’ Residency has announced the purchase of 137 Center Street in Douglas, Michigan. The former site of the Douglas library will become the permanent home of Ox-Bow House, ...

A growing group of artists “have benefited from what could be called the ‘rediscovery industrial complex’: a cottage industry within the art market that looks to the past to find figures—often women ...

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While I ride CTA trains, mostly the Red Line, a few times a week, I was interested in getting a better sense of what conditions are like on the El at other times of the day. So I hung out on the Red ...

It’s a Friday afternoon and two young men from the suburbs are looking for a place to crash later that night, after hitting up the bars in Andersonville and Uptown. A friend recommended The Lodge ...

Roeper accepted a buyout from the Sun-Times in March 2025 after thirty-seven years. “Roeper first met Roger Ebert at the Sun-Times in the 1980s, and the two developed a friendship that led to their on ...

It is two-thirty in the morning at Carol’s Pub. Most of the other bars in the neighborhood have closed, and customers of all ages—from twenty-one to sixty—file in to order more beer and whiskey, and ...

H.R. Brinkerhoff was reading near the window of his second story officer’s quarters at Fort Sheridan one frigid, early spring afternoon when he observed a “very large” black speck amid the waves of ...

Hairpin Arts Center, in partnership with the Logan Square Chamber of Commerce, will present “On Being: A Group Art Show,” curated by Ingrid TS Rodriguez and featuring works from Rodriguez, Brianna ...