Profane poetry and the art — or lack thereof — of the superior swindle are playwright David Mamet's domain. Whether you judge the Pulitzer…
Once upon a time, in the 1990s, women ran amok with guitars and dominated the alt-rock landscape. A couple of these ladies — Nina…
There are those who love their fellow man and those who observe them, anatomizing and cataloguing their multifarious qualities. Erstwhile English professor turned pornographic…
In the fall of 1972, the landlord of a Chicago apartment building entered the second-floor room of an elderly tenant named Henry Darger. Recently…
Sidewalk Chalk is an eight-piece Chicago ensemble that plays a combination of hip-hop and soul. Its laid-back, jazzy approach — horns, keys, soulful singing,…
In 1972, Judy Chicago and Miriam Schapiro, co-founders of CalArts' Feminist Art Program, turned a dilapidated Hollywood mansion into “Womanhouse,” a space transformed by…
Chicago quartet Bottomless Pit is the beautiful unsmiling creature that grew itself out of the ashes of the exemplary American indie-rock band Silkworm. The…
Whether or not hot dogs turn out to be the next It thing to get (re)discovered, everyone should make haste to the Mission to…
I walked into Hard Water, near the Ferry Building, on a quiet night. It looks like what you'd get if you crossed an old-time…
To any who suggest that theater is an irrelevant, dying art form (as naysayers have done for hundreds of years), consider the San Francisco…
