The Moviegoer is the diary of a local film buff, collecting the best of what Chicago’s independent and underground film scene has to offer.

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Prologue to the Story of the Birth of Freedom," at the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, contains 25 years of the work of Paul Pfeiffer.

The El, by Theodore C. Van Alst Jr., is a semi-autobiographical novel set over the course of one scorching day in Chicago, August 1979.

A textile artist living with cancer searches for her roots in Female, Ashkenazi With a Sewing Machine at Arts Judaica.

Jeremy Owens on loss, friendship, and keeping a live lit show built around true-life stories going for 15 years.

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Mamak Razmgir, an Iranian artist living in Texas, depicts feminist protesters in Dancing in Tehran’s Streets, a drawing rich in possibility.

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Tetchy are a rising Brooklyn four-piece who make dreamy, anguished pop punk, and they’ve gradually matured their style over time.