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The British Council, Ghana in partnership with the BlueCrest University College, has announced the successful graduation of 100 participants forming the first cohort from the Creative Economy E-learning programme.

High school: the universal experience that, no matter how long it’s been, seems to follow us throughout our lives. A plethora of popular media centers around the high school experience (think Gossip Girl, Euphoria, or Outer Banks). Steppenwolf Theater’s Chlorine Sky, based on the novel of the same name by Mahogany L. Browne, is a...

It’s a common trope in movies: the protagonist’s life changes in the flash of a second. A Good Person starts in the same way. We’re introduced to Allison (Florence Pugh) who seemingly has it all: the perfect fiancé (Chinaza Uche), a promising career, and the warm company of family and friends. But after a fatal accident...

On February 17, EDM duo Lost Kings made a stop at Chicago’s Concord Music Hall as a part of their I Think I Think Too Much tour. Just before the show, The Chicago Maroon sat down with Lost Kings DJs Robert (Rob) Abisi and Nick Shanholtz to talk about their creative process and the development of...

The Po’ Ramblin’ Boys usually bypass Chicago when driving through the Midwest, but, for the UChicago Folk Fest on February 10 and 11, the Grammy-nominated folk band made the city their destination. “It took us a long time to get here, cause your traffic is really bad,” quipped the band’s mandolinist C.J. Lewandowski, “[But] we’re...

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Avery Preesman’s diptych “Echo”: On the left, lines of micro wax run with Cartesian precision across a large canvas panel, and the whole piece is painted a single flat sterling. On the right, a much smaller square of concrete has been debossed with a sort of rough crosshatching. Deep grooves radiate from one corner of...

Content Warning: drug use, graphic descriptions of violence and abortion In a make-believe tree house in a real-life-used-to-be-church on the North Side of Chicago, Steep Theatre’s production of Alexis Scheer’s Our Dear Dead Drug Lord is not for the faint of heart. The play, which premiered in 2021 to much acclaim, depicts four teenage girls in...

When I first took the pitch for this article—to write about my takeaways from a classic holiday movie—I was determined to write a passionate defense of Frank Capra’s 1946 classic It’s a Wonderful Life. Then two things happened. First, I talked to almost everyone I know at this school, and an alarmingly small number of...

At The Edge Theater, north of Chicago, AstonRep Theatre Company opened their 15th and final season with a searing and beautiful production of Sam Shepard’s Pulitzer Prize-winning Buried Child. Written in 1978, the play depicts the disillusionment that accompanies 22-year-old Vince’s return to his family’s Midwestern home. There, he finds his petulant grandfather, Dodge; nostalgic...