The electric and innovative Wrights of Spring Festival takes place over two weeks every year, during which student scripts are explored in various forms. During this festival, one student production...

Sonja Thomsen’s solo show at the DePaul Art Museum (DPAM), “Glowing Wavelengths in Between,” invites viewers to have temporal experiences with light. The show features photographs, sculpture and...

Size does matter, according to the recent exhibition, “S, M, L, XL,” at The Museum of Contemporary Art (MCA). The exhibit held four works in varying sizes, spanning five decades with Robert Morris’...

See update. The Humboldt Park-based music festival, Riot Fest, was recently named the best music festival according to readers of USA Today and 10Best. The festival, which took place in September, hosted...

To talk about a film that takes place inside one’s mind, it is only fitting to begin in the mind of its creator, a man whose imagination has spawned worlds so unlike ours, they’ve become an escape...

Political candidates are often criticized for their slick presence and skilled avoidance as they slither around tough questions. But besides the words they say and the promises they keep — or don’t...

We did the homework so you don't have to. Check back each week for the scoop on bands you can't miss at Pitchfork, Lollapalooza, North Coast and Riot Fest this year. Banks While some artists tend...

Some quiver at the thought of spending an entire hour without checking social media or using your phone to send calls and texts. No snaps would be sent, Instagram pictures would go “unliked” and...

Dearly beloved, we are gathered here today to commemorate the upcoming death of Max Kleiner. He will finally ascend to our Lord and Savior, Guy Fieri, on the night of June 8, 2015. Cause of death: Graduation....

  In front of a sold-out show at the Riviera Theatre May 14, Tame Impala’s Kevin Parker bantered with talk of John Belushi. It’s cliche perhaps groan-worthy to most Chicagoans, but Parker was...

[slideshow_deploy id='11823'] Katie Crutchfield has come a long way from recording music in her bedroom in Birmingham, Alabama with just an acoustic guitar. After her band P.S. Eliot broke up, Crutchfield...

The Second Watch is a weekly "Game of Thrones" recap column by Focus Editor Erin Yarnall. Read more here.  This week’s episode was titled “Kill the Boy.” While the only boy that was killed...