Jeffy Mai was the Associate Editor for Eater’s Midwest region, and has been covering Chicago’s dining scene for over a decade ...

Chicago theater justly is famed for the quality of its actors. But which performances were the best of 2025? Here is our annual celebration of the top 10 performances of the year. Unlike our Top 10 ...

Black artists have contributed to the most vital Christmas music of our time through soulful classics and energetic R&B ...

She’s Green, Samia, Gully Boys and Alan Sparhawk were among the local acts offering adventurous listens this year.

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For more than 70 years, the greatest musicians in the world have been recording Christmas songs. Here are our picks for the ...

Christmastime is here, as Vince Guaraldi and Lee Mendelson put it in the nostalgia-inducing song composed for "A Charlie Brown Christmas" in 1965.

Hundreds of new Christmas songs are released every year, but each time December rolls around, the same small handful of classics races to the top of the charts. Will anything new ever break through?

To skirt the now-grating classics and AI slop, we’ve compiled a playlist of tunes spanning folk, R&B, and alt-rock, all from ...

As both a music critic and a seasonal fanatic who writes my own Christmas-themed newsletter, here are a half dozen essentials.

APP. SPOTIFY IS OUT WITH ITS ANNUAL LIST OF THE TOP ARTISTS AND SONGS OF 2024, AND IT APPEARS THERE WAS ONE SONG MILWAUKEE JUST COULDN’T GET ENOUGH OF THIS YEAR. EVERYBODY AT THE BAR DEEP DISH. WELL, ...

The six-man soul group takes the stage Friday for its fifth annual “Hollyy-Days” show, with holiday covers and new songs.