House Musical: Coming of Age in the Age of House, the new community production running at Center on Halsted’s Hoover-Leppen Theatre, is a great history lesson on the genre and Black Chicago ...

In 1986, Simone Bouyer worked a day job in Chicago at the advertising agency Ogilvy & Mather while painting in her spare time. “I was having a problem getting my art shown,” she recalls ...

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For the people who were there when it was invented in small clubs and basement parties in Chicago in the 1980s, house music was a force of nature. Four decades later, its impact is bigger than ever.

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The recently reissued zine ran for 10 issues from 1989 to 1993, as house "was blowing up." By Elias Leight In 1986, Simone Bouyer worked a day job in Chicago at the advertising agency Ogilvy ...

Last Call Chicago: A History of 1,001 LGBTQ-Friendly Taverns, Haunts & Hangouts could not have been written by anyone but authors Rick Karlin and St Sukie de la Croix.Both are journalists with a ...

"We were in the middle of this history forming around house culture - it was blowing up in Chicago at the time," Martin continues. Ford "knew music inside and out. It is really a thread that runs ...