Behind Chicago band Red Scarves’ latest album ‘Nice Try’
The album features nine tracks that explore failure and just doing your best.
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The album features nine tracks that explore failure and just doing your best.
Taste, smell and memory can be guides to recreating beloved dishes after the death of a loved one or the closure of a favorite restaurant.
Chicago artist Robert Earl Paige has 60 years worth of his art on display right now at the Hyde Park Art Center.
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The Chicago musicmaker was the sound engineer behind albums for thousands of bands and singers, including Nirvana’s “In Utero,” the last studio album recorded by Kurt Cobain and company.
Schantelle Alonzo creates animated films for and about underrepresented communities like the deaf, Asian Americans and immigrants.
The Northwest Side neighborhood is home to great thrifting destinations, community gardens and a long list of ethnic restaurants.
The club held a soft reopening April 26 and 27 featuring 2024 Grammy-nominated Chicago blues legend John Primer and his band the Real Deal.
The two Chicago-based nonprofit journalism organizations garnered the Local Reporting prize on Monday for the “Missing in Chicago” series, and Invisible Institute won a second Pulitzer for audio reporting. Eig’s ‘King: A Life’ won in the Biography category.