SAGITTARIUS: Focus on the big picture.

A smorgasbord of workshops, residencies and online performances dispatched Chicago-based dance artists to the Dance Center’s national and international audience while deepening the connections within Chicago's arts community.

December theater seeks to comfort, celebrate and connect in a difficult holiday season.

An ongoing series on the depth and complexity of Blackness.

In this weekly column, art critic Lori Waxman adapts her 60wrd/min project to review work by artists whose practice has been affected by the pandemic.

Although heavy in information, the built structures within the exhibition allow for pause and reflection, a chance to interact with the architect’s work and experience the space as it relates to his often-communal design.

Throughout Jotham Burrello’s debut novel “Spindle City,” Joseph Bartlett, perhaps Fall River, Massachusetts’ most influential person, suffers from a toothache.

SCORPIO: here is some wisdom from two wise women.

Theater educator Alyssa Oltmanns believes her student production of a play including LGBTQ issues was cancelled for censorship reasons.

“Bullets For Dead Hoods: An Encyclopedia of Chicago Mobsters, c. 1933” is a curious title for a large format book showing only a yellowed page with pencil scribbling above the title.

Featuring colorful works by artists Chris Bogia and Anna Kunz, graphite drawings by Alex Paik, and choice, reductive paintings by Belgian Léon Wuidar, the exhibition is joyful and inviting.

In this weekly column, art critic Lori Waxman adapts her 60wrd/min project to review work by artists whose practice has been affected by the pandemic.

The stories of Chicago's famous Robert Taylor Homes residents come alive in the new documentary-style play by the late PJ Paparelli and Joshua Jaeger.

SCORPIO: be a subtle, refined and mature blend of a beast, angel and madperson.

Everywhere I looked on this beautiful, balmy Indian summer Saturday, people were celebrating; peals of joy and happiness rang out everywhere in our city. I don't think I've ever been more proud of Americans.

Scorpio: "At every crossroad, be prepared to bump into wonder."

Freeman's creative obsessions—brown paper, burlap and Audre Lorde—feature in her new collaboration with Jordan Phelps and VAM Studio.

The relationship between Black folks and Hennessy is deep.

The matriarch of that family Over There was known as Mother Henry. A woman of love and family and food and gospel and the baptist God. An aficionado of uplift on that electric blues part of town.