“I have a pinned tweet on my page that says, ‘“I fucked someone to that playlist you made” is the highest compliment you can give me.’”
Tag: Hebru Brantley
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Solange supports black Chicago creatives at Pitchfork and beyond
Solange and her Saint Heron collective show off the depth and richness of the city’s black cultural expression with a festival installation and three off-site events.
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Love illuminates Chance the Rapper’s highly anticipated new Coloring Book
Chatham superstar Chance the Rapper rhymes about family, religion, and Chicago throughout his brand-new mixtape, binding it all together with irrepressible love.
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Chiditarod hits the streets, the Interview Show celebrates eight years, and more things to do in Chicago this weekend
Waffle Fest 6, Gilmore Guys, and more happenings from March 4-6.
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Black to the future with Regina Taylor’s Stop. Reset.
The actress/playwright/director’s Goodman Theatre show is nervy is hell.
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Announcing the lineup for Afropunk Chicago
Here’s the breakdown for Afropunk’s one-off Chicago bash, plus all the info you need to see it.
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Arts expo Lake FX opens with a question: What’s the ‘lake effect’?
Lake FX, Chicago’s weekend of workshops and events for the creative community, launched Thursday with a discussion of the “lake effect.”
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Patrick Hull’s journey from the boardroom to the gallery
Vertical Gallery’s Patrick Hull traded in a marketing career to open a street art gallery.
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The art of collecting
Diasporal Rhythms, a group of Chicagoans who collect work by artists of African descent, celebrates ten years.
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On the south side, art tackles a problem
The South Side Community Art Center’s “Maleness to Manhood” offers an arts expo grounded in a Chicago reality.
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Gossip Wolf: HoZac saves Dwight Twilley’s shark from the dark
Vintage Dwight Twilley on HoZac Archival, a photo op for Cherries Records, and a lineup change for Terminate
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Hebru Brantley visits planet America
Paintings by Hebru Brantley in “Brothers of the Robbing Hood,” at Lacuna Artist Lofts
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Gossip Wolf: Legs McNeil reads from Please Kill Me at Late Bar
Legs McNeil reads from Please Kill Me at Late Bar, the inaugural Black Dot Music Festival brings together bands of color, and more
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Cauleen Smith’s Sun Ra-inspired “A Star Is a Seed” at the MCA
A review of Cauleen Smith’s “A Star Is a Seed”