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Bartlett, IL · Arts & Culture
mhf-mag.com
Interview With Chicago’s Modern Hard Rock/Metal Band “Cease To Resist”
Chicago duo Randy Gonet and Tom Miller, together with Slovenian vocalist Marko Duplišak, deliver the modern metal / hard rock debut Edge Of Silence, now available on all platforms. In 1986, a sixth-grader named Randy Gonet brought his guitar to Wayne School in West Chicago for show-and-tell. A classmate,...
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CBS Chicago
"Doorways of Chicago" book offers fascinating look at city's history
Some of the most fascinating Chicago history can be found in places we might walk past without a second glance. Photographer and author Ronnie Frey reveals those hidden stories in his new book "Doorways of Chicago."
Austin Weekly News
Austin Coming Together’s documentary wins an Emmy
A documentary about Austin and grassroots efforts to empower the West Side neighborhood took home a win at the 68th annual Chicago/Midwest Emmy Awards. The annual awards ceremony, a local chapter of the New York-based National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences, took place last weekend at Swissôtel Chicago, 323 E. Wacker Drive. The 2025 […] The post Austin Coming Together’s documentary wins an Emmy appeared first on Austin Weekly News .
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evanstonroundtable.com
ETHS celebrates opening of center for performing arts, music tech studio, gallery, theater
Wildkits pride took center stage on Thursday as Evanston Township High School and the ETHS Foundation celebrated the grand opening of the Leonard D. Schaeffer Center for the Performing Arts, Lewis-Sebring Gallery, the Arlen Music Technology Studio and the newly constructed Black Box Theatre. The evening began with a dedication...
CHICAGO READER
A Black family in mourning implodes in Hayward
Netta Walker’s new play, Hayward, informed by Hamlet and Electra, concerns itself with the emotions of a Black family in mourning. Presented in Steppenwolf’s 1700 space by the Gift Theatre, the story begins at the funeral of notorious ne’er-do-well patriarch Tony (powerfully portrayed by Watson Swift) while his similarly imperfect family grieves. Unfortunately for them, Pastor Johnson (played with delicious wickedness by Alfred H. Wilson) ministers judgments louder than his condolences.
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Famous Chicago zoo gorilla Bushman preserved in museum
In 1951, the city of Chicago wept for its most famous and beloved citizen. This wasn't a politician, an actor, or an athlete—it was a magnificent, five-hundred-pound western lowland gorilla named Bushman. For over twenty years, Bushman lived at the Lincoln Park Zoo, where he brought joy to an...
Third Coast Review
Review: Horror Tourist Trap: Windy City Screams, by Bill Reick
Chicago is rarely connected with horror—at least as far as film genres go. Many movies have been shot in the city, but if you ask anyone to name three, you’ll likely get a list of comedies (Risky Business and The Blues Brothers), thrillers (The Fugitive), gangster flicks (Road to Perdition and The Untouchables), and maybe a sci-fi/superhero blockbuster or two (The Dark Knight and Transformers: Dark of the Moon). But horror? The average fan may recall that Candyman and Child’s Play were shot in Chicago, but that’s about it. That’s the biggest challenge author Bill Reick faced in writing Windy City Screams: Chicago’s Horror Movie History, a travel guide to horror film locations in the city. A challenge he doesn't meet—though he might’ve tried to make the trip more interesting.
rolling out
Shafiq Lamar Hicks recalls magical moment with Aretha Franklin
Shafiq Lamar Hicks has shared the stage with legends. As a young singer from Philadelphia, he performed alongside Aretha Franklin and Andrea Bocelli during the papal visit to his hometown, an experience that left a lasting mark on his artistry. Since then, the accomplished actor, vocalist and educator has toured...
lovelandbeacon.com
Celebrating the exhibition of invention
LOVELAND, OH (October 30, 2026) – In Fun with Maps today, we honor the exhibition which celebrated the discovery of America by Christopher Columbus. The World’s Columbian Exhibition closed on October 30, 1893, in Chicago’s Jackson Park and the adjacent Plaisance Midway on the city’s south side.
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S.L.R. MAGAZINE
Chicago’s Daisychain move through the dark thickness of grief on 90s-inspired grungy, sticky track “Tar” out now
Chicago-based psych rock trio Daisychain move through the dark thickness of grief on “Tar,” out now. Building and brooding over distorted guitars and vocal harmonies, it’s inspired by 90s grunge-rock-that moves the way tar might–slow, sticky and heavy. It was produced, mixed and mastered by acclaimed Chicago producer, engineer and multi-instrumentalist, Noam Wallenberg (Vulfpeck, A$AP […]
Block Club Chicago
Film Showing How Austin Leaders Are Redefining The West Side Takes Home Emmy
AUSTIN — A documentary about Austin and grassroots efforts to empower the West Side neighborhood took home a win at the 68th annual Chicago/Midwest Emmy Awards. The annual awards ceremony, a local chapter of the New York-based National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences, took place last weekend at Swissôtel Chicago, 323 E. Wacker Drive.
WGN News
John Kass, longtime Chicago columnist for the Tribune and then his own website, says he’s calling it a career
John Kass, the longtime Chicago columnist who once wrote for the Chicago Tribune before starting his own website five years ago, will soon call it a career, according to a column Kass posted on his website Sunday.
fnewsmagazine.com
‘Chicago Has Always Been a Native Place’
Before 2024, the small museum of North American Indigenous cultures, located deep in suburban Evanston, was known as the Mitchell Museum of the American Indian. Founded by a non-Native couple of art collectors, John M. and Betty Seabury Mitchell, the Mitchell Museum displayed a comprehensive survey of Indigenous art and artifacts from across the continent, but it was missing one crucial thing: the input and leadership of contemporary Native people.