Selena Fragassi

After years of supporting other musicians, including being a proud “album doula” in the studio, the Chicago artist is back with her first proper solo album in six years and will celebrate with two shows at Hideout Oct. 15 and 16.

It's a production that puts femininity and growth at its core, where flowers are both a symbol of love and recognized as the automatic gift that comes at many different life stages.

Transitioning from a trial lawyer to a full-time singer, the “Poor Man's Pain” artist realizes that there's beauty in letting go on her new album, ‘Everything Has Changed'

A judge ruled Pat Corcoran has to forfeit merchandising fees, which could total $1.5 million, but denied the rapper's request for relief on outside ventures, including the Ramova Theatre.

On his new album ‘Rent Money,' the artist's ongoing exploration of 20th-century musical traditions come with lessons from 20th-century life

Across 200 pages, photographer Jim Newberry corrals his most candid snapshots and telling portraits of local luminaries, including Liz Phair, Steve Albini and Mavis Staples.

The musician's newest eatery, which she opened with wife Monica Haslip, features an all-day breakfast menu that includes quiche, buttermilk and cheddar scallion biscuits and a build-your-own breakfast sandwich alongside artwork and artifacts that Chicago artist Richard Hunt collected from places around the world.

Chicago is one of the most haunted cities in America where legendary ghost stories like Resurrection Mary run as deep as our pizza. But if you think you've heard them all, not so fast, says tour guide Adam Selzer.

After three years, the Seattle rocker returns with an album that will give everyone pause Written by Selena Fragassi |

‘Gentling the Horse at the Walt Whitman Mall' could be one of the most American records since ‘Born in the U.S.A.' but they're not singing about America the Beautiful