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Chicago rapper Vic Mensa, left, looks at his phone before shooting his new video with the participation of activist Alex King, right, and direction of Andrew Gould at The Forum, in the south side, Wednesday Oct., 21, 2020.

Chicago State University drum line performs in Vic Mensa’s new music video

October 23, 2020 at 10:34 p.m.

When we last heard from Chicago rapper Vic Mensa, he was standing virtual Lollapalooza 2020 on its head with the majestic "No More Teardrops," a searing indictment of racist violence...

Kaiser Ahmed (Joe Mazza), Sydney Charles (Joel Maisonet!), Wardell Julius Clark (Joshua Albanese) and Coya Paz Brownrigg (DePaul University)

Talk is cheap. What are arts organizations doing about diversity and inclusion?

September 28, 2020 at 9:03 p.m.

When George Floyd lost his life under the knee of a Minneapolis police officer, it was all too much. The nation was thrown into turmoil, and everyone chose a side,...

Jason Heyward carries the Chicago flag out to right field before the Cubs home opener on July 24, 2020.

Column: Teams succeed and fail as a unit. The Cubs failed when they didn’t stand with Jason Heyward.

August 28, 2020 at 3:56 p.m.

Team. We think a lot about that idea and word in so many contexts, but in the world of sports, team is particularly crucial. Teams succeed and fail as a...

Vic Mensa performs at Lollapalooza in Chicago's Grant Park on Saturday, July 30, 2016.

Review: Virtual Lollapalooza was just like real one with hits, dross and plenty of commercialism, but without the sunburn and sore feet

August 3, 2020 at 12:12 p.m.

How eerie it was that a made-for-TV Lollapalooza had a perfect, unscripted confluence of real-life events and art. Saturday as Chicago rapper Vic Mensa spat bars during an incendiary two-song...

Attendees sit on the ground near the Perry's stage after the final act of the day at Lollapalooza 2015.

Here’s the virtual Lollapalooza 2020 schedule: Hits and dusties and plenty of new content from the likes of H.E.R., KAINA, Tom Morello and others

July 31, 2020 at 7:26 p.m.

So on the up side, there won't be any Cruel Overlaps in the Lollapalooza schedule, the phrase coined by former Tribune critic Greg Kot to describe shows that made you...

Attendees dance at the Perry's stage during the last day of the 2019 Lollapalooza Music Festival in Grant Park Sunday Aug., 4, 2019, in Chicago. (Armando L. Sanchez/Chicago Tribune)

There will be a Lollapalooza of sorts after all. Here’s the virtual event lineup, with old and new content

July 30, 2020 at 7:55 p.m.

No flower crowns, no underbutt, no stepping on smushed piles of uncertain provenance as you rush to a stage. Is it really Lollapalooza without sunburn, sore feet, the incessant thump...

Millennium Park At Home series roiled by artist protests, censorship allegations after a scheduled performance was abruptly canceled

July 24, 2020 at 6:21 p.m.

Lots went on in the still of the night on the social justice front. Not only were Christopher Columbus statues removed, so were performances by a pair of Chicago artists...

Chicago celebs combine to help raise money for the arts by belting out a blues chestnut

July 9, 2020 at 10:10 p.m.

Remember "We Are the World," the video project where pop stars got together to belt out an impossibly cheesy anthem for a beautiful cause? It's happened again, but with a...

Bubba Wallace, driver of the #43 Richard Petty Motorsports Chevrolet, wears a "I Can't Breathe - Black Lives Matter" t-shirt under his fire suit on May 25, 2020.

Column: Drivers, don’t start your engines. NASCAR, put your money where your mouth is and cancel today’s race after the noose incident involving Bubba Wallace.

June 22, 2020 at 7:55 p.m.

Cancel the race. It's that simple. If NASCAR is really that worried, really that appalled by the vile action of the person who placed a noose in driver Bubba Wallace's...

Mike Derks, alias Balsac the Jaws of Death, izquierda, y Brent Purgason, alias Pustulus Maximus de GWAR, en el Riot Fest & Carnival en Douglas Park el 16 de septiembre de 2016 en Chicago.

Riot Fest también cae y se ‘aplaza’ hasta 2021

June 17, 2020 at 1:49 p.m.

No habrá Riot Fest en 2020, las esperanzas de los fanáticos de la música de festivales al aire libre de que el festival centrado en el punk pueda encontrar una...

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