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DJ Drip, aka Julian Leal, finally downloaded TikTok this past January—and he got immediate results. @mastermindfotoo on Instagram Julian Leal is a 21-year-old college student majoring in business at Columbia College in the South Loop, but hes better known by his stage name: DJ Drip. In his Instagram bio, he calls himself "The Midwests Youngest + Hottest DJ"—a...

Yan "This is a wish come true," says Yuki Sakamoto, cofounder of the Chicago Japan Film Collective (CJFC), the first-ever Japanese film festival held in Chicago. The festival runs from May 25 through May 30 on Eventive, a digital streaming platform. "We are hoping to do a hybrid festival next year in theaters and also online, to make it bigger and bigger," says cofounder Hiroshi Kono. Kono founded New York Japan CineFest in 2012, a film festival with a focus on Japanese indie shorts, while Saka...

Soul singer Jackie Ross is so much more than a one-hit wonder  The 1964 Chess Records smash “Selfish One” just happened to be the best-selling single from her decades of great songs. Sign up for our newsletters Subscribe Since 2004 Plastic Crimewave (aka Steve Krakow) has used the Secret History of Chicago Music to shine a light on worthy artists with Chicago ties whove been forgotten, underrated, or never noticed in the first place. As much as people love the famous songs of so-called one...

The bizarre true story of Albrecht Muth, an eccentric German native and compulsive...

Director Iris Sowlat uses social isolation as a framework for the lovers; plus PARA.MAR Dance Theatre offers live classes and performances with THAWEN.

Bob Koester in the stacks at the Jazz Record Mart in 2009 Michael Jackson Bob Koester, who died May 12 at age 88, knew what he liked—and what you should like too. For nearly 70 years, he owned Chicagos Jazz Record Mart (and the Delmark label), and it was completely in character for him to snatch an album from the hands of an earnest young shopper. In 1968, tha...

(Nina Fuentes/BGA) The Better Government Association welcomes two interns to work with the BGA’s award-winning investigative team for the next six months. Analisa Trofimuk and Siri Chilukuri were selected from more than 100 applicants nationwide to join the nonprofit newsroom as it continues an ambitious internship program launched last year. Trofimuk is currently a graduate student at DePaul University where she studies data journalism. A native of suburban Tinley Park, she graduated from Co...

When James McIntyre advocates for queer kids facing abuse and neglect in the state’s foster care system, he draws on painful personal experience of his own time in the system—and the abuse he endured. McIntyre was only three years old when his parents’ drug use and neglect forced Illinois child protection authorities to place him and his four siblings in foster care. A couple eventually adopted him and two siblings years later, but that home wasn’t the solace he was promised. He tells t...

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Samantha Cabrera Friend Each Saturday outside a squat Logan Square bungalow, people in the community know they can come by for items like milk, eggs, fruit, and clothing. Some neighbors come prepared with carts to take home a whole box. This weekly food distribution began last spring as the small house transitioned from a hostel, garden, and interdisciplinary arts space for local artists to ...