This story was co-published with the South Side Weekly.

Back in 1989, Jim Ginsburg, a recent University of Chicago graduate and the son of then-federal judge Ruth Bader Ginsburg, began law school. A few years later, Ginsburg gave up his studies to devote his time to Cedille Records, a new classical recording company he founded in Hyde Park. 

Scores of LGBTQ people attended the Hyde Park Art Center's (HPAC) first-ever "Art of Pride" event on Sunday, with music, drag performers, art and crafts for sale and outreach from local health and social services organizations.

Ring those bells! The 79th annual Congress of the Guild of Carillonneurs in North America (GCNA) will convene for five days at the University of Chicago, beginning June 15. 

Hyde Parker Namir Smallwood is making a name for himself on Chicago’s theater scene. An ensemble member of the Steppenwolf Theatre Company since 2017, he’s now starring in the theatre’s adaptation of the famed Anton Chekhov play “Seagull.” 

Editor's note: This piece is co-published with the South Side Weekly

In a press kit insert for “Seagull,” translator-adapter-director Yasen Peyankov explains that his version of Anton Chekhov's 1895 play “is rooted in contemporary English as spoken in the U.S.” He goes on to say he “wanted to give American audiences an opportunity to experience the play as th…

Actress and author Zoe Kazan's “After The Blast” is a domestic drama set in a dystopian future. Its Chicago premiere at Broken Nose Theatre, directed by JD Caudill, is engrossing despite how long it takes to set up the situation, some unnecessary digressions and limited resources.

On June 12, the Court Theatre will receive the 2022 Regional Theatre Tony Award during the awards ceremony at Radio City Music Hall, becoming the sixth Chicago theater—and the first in eleven years—to receive this honor. Now in its 67th season, Court joins previous winners Steppenwolf (1985)…

The South Side’s premier classical music presenter ended its 2021–22 season earlier this month with two memorable concerts. University of Chicago Presents (UCP) closed out the performing year with the final installment in the Sound/Sites series and followed that a few days later with an earl…

The Century of Progress International Exposition, also known as the Chicago World’s Fair, took place from 1933 to 1934 and changed the life of composer Florence Price. It was for this international event that her first symphony was selected as one of the works for a celebratory Chicago Symph…

Photography and memory are at the center of Naomi Iizuka's “At the Vanishing Point,” which was written nearly two decades ago and is receiving a solid, moving Chicago premiere by Gift Theatre. 

The South Chicago Dance Theatre (SCDT) will celebrate its fifth anniversary on May 20 at the Harris Theater with a show featuring a quintet of new dance pieces. 

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Last year, the Herald reported that summer festival organizers were planning a full slate of the local events residents know and love, all of which had been canceled in 2020.

With the invasion of Ukraine about to move into its third month, it might seem like an unfortunate time to publish a book arguing that war is actually uncommon. But for Christopher Blattman, a professor at the University of Chicago’s Pearson Institute for the Study and Resolution of Global C…

In 2002, while enrolled in a master’s program at the University of Chicago, Kate Lorenz “kind of happened into” an internship at the Hyde Park Art Center (HPAC).

After almost seven years of writing, local author Anara Guard has published her debut novel, “Like A Complete Unknown.” 

In a fictionalized Englewood, a City Council candidate puts up a billboard that reads “The most dangerous place for a Black child is his mother’s womb.” A nearby women’s clinic fights back with its own provocative sign: “Black women take care of their families by taking care of themselves. A…

The inaugural cohort for the Dorchester Industries Experimental Design Lab was announced on Tuesday, April 5, at the Stony Island Arts Bank. The cohort, composed of artists of color from Chicago, London and New York, is a three-year program with South Side roots aimed at financially supporti…

While Maya Ben-Shahar was an undergraduate at Carleton College, a small liberal arts school about 45 minutes south of Minneapolis, she struck up a correspondence with Cedric Theus, an incarcerated man serving a life sentence at Iowa State Penitentiary. 

After the South Side’s first COVID-19 patient touched down at Midway airport in February 2020, Dr. Thomas Fisher received them at the University of Chicago Medical Center (UCMC). Within a matter of weeks, the pandemic tore through the city and, in particular, the South and West sides.