Icons” temporarily imagines a different world, in which the familiar dreams of individuals with Down syndrome become palpable ...

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In new album Defiant Life, Smith plays patient melodies that course inexorably through the open, rolling terrain of Iyer’s subdued, lyrical piano and subtle electronics.

A Kyrgyzstani man stands before Judge Patrick M. McKenna at Chicago’s immigration court on June 12 when a lawyer for the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) asks that his case be dismissed.

With Prop Thtr and the National New Play Network, Vehill was a champion of emerging writers and fringe artists for decades.

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Texas singer-songwriter Edith Frost makes soulful fusions of country rock and folk in step with moody indie-country ...

Divyangi Shukla practices acts of great care for the damaged and the forgotten through sculpture, painting, and poetry.

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In Kimberly Akimbo, a teenage girl with a progeria-like condition wrestles with mortality and a dysfuctional family.

After attending Oberlin Conservatory together, multi-instrumentalist Matt Gold and trumpeter and producer Will Miller both ended up in Chicago.