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Local Events: Arts and Entertainment

April 8: Ratchet Series at The Skylark Let’s get ratchet. For six years, The Skylark, 2149 S. Halsted, in Pilsen has held its Ratchet Series, presenting a diversity of music to the neighborhood including free jazz, improvised and experimental. Join them Monday as DH Bastet performs, a musical act described as bass guitar driven avant-jazz [...]

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Yollocalli Arts Reach Celebrates Valentine’s Day, National Condom Week

The youth council at Yollocalli Arts Reach decided to celebrate Valentine’s Day a little different this year. Encouraged by National Condom Week, Feb. 14 – Feb. 21, a week that uses humor to help educate on safe sex practices, and the need for safe sex awareness in the community, it has organized a Valentine-making party [...]

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Urban Pop: New Yollocalli Exhibit Takes Inspiration from the Streets

They can be seen under viaducts, alongside building facades, light posts and even sidewalks in about every neighborhood in the city. Graphic, bold and unsanctioned images that use public space as a catalyst for self-expression. It’s street art. A subversive form of artwork that’s been bombarding city streets for years and now is the inspiration [...]