Chicago designer Sheila Rashid makes unisex clothes that give people the freedom to define themselves.
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Five low-budget (but still amazing) science-fiction films
These five films prove that sci-fi can thrive without big budgets.
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Terminal cancer—and the band Toto—is bringing my family together for my parents’ last date
A Toto show in the Chicago suburbs has become my dad’s “wake before he sleeps,” now that he’s been diagnosed with a rare terminal cancer.
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Chicago’s most popular young metal guitarist plays on YouTube, not onstage
Chicago guitarist Rob Scallon almost never plays live, but his frequently goofy YouTube videos have earned him an audience of millions.
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MTV’s Unlocking the Truth is too focused on white men
The new series on wrongful convictions highlights cases that aren’t representative of wider prison demographics.
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Comedian Megan Gailey comes home: ‘We’re so annoying about being from Chicago’
The stand-up headlines the upcoming Comedy Exposition.
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Why liberals should dearly miss Antonin Scalia, the Bond villain of Supreme Court justices
Progressives now have no one adversary of sufficient skill and smarts to galvanize them.
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Half the laughs are offstage with the stand-up trio behind Road Kill Comedy
Jessica Michelle Singleton, Lisa Curry, and Dana Moon film their 15-city tour for a new docuseries, Road Kill Comedy.
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Jemaine Clement and Taika Waititi want to suck your blood
The New Zealand comedians star in What We Do in the Shadows, a vampire mockumentary.
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The Real World in Chicago: Then and now
A lot has changed since the last time MTV filmed its reality show in the city.
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Please kill the MTV Video Music Awards
The awards show celebrates music videos as a pretense, and in the process it insults the medium.
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A new bio takes a trip across the Whedonverse
Amy Pascale manages to strike a balance between fan and biographer in Joss Whedon: The Biography.
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Everything is wonderful in the world of Everything Is Terrible!
Everything Is Terrible! is collaborating with the likes of MTV and Fox, but its core mission—to be as weird as possible—holds true.
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MTV’s Catfish isn’t just fun and mind games anymore
A new season promises a “darker” side of deceiving people on the Internet.
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Artist on Artist: Boots Riley of the Coup talks to ShowYouSuck
Boots Riley of the Coup lays some truth on straightedge Chicago party rapper ShowYouSuck.