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Doctors say they know why the Chicago Symphony Orchestra's music director collapsed during rehearsals.A common heart rhythm disturbance caused Riccardo Muti's fainting spell, according to a joint statement by the CSO and cardiologists at Northwestern Memorial Hospital.  The hospital gave Muti a

Valentine’s Day is just around the corner. So is spring. That means LOVE is in the air! That’s especially true for two local dance companies.

Gen Xers are generally not shy when it comes to self-reflection. They’re always searching for the meaning of life - maybe having a quarter-life crisis along the way.

For many years, this week's guest for The Weekly Guide was probably part of your weekend routine. Julia Sweeney was a regular on Saturday Night Live in the '90s.

Musicians Damon Locks and Wayne Montana have been collaborating for more than twenty years now. Their first band, Trenchmouth, leaned heavily toward the post-punk camp. And for more than a decade, their band The Eternals has been an evolving meld of everything from punk to dub to jazz to film!

Cambodian-Americans in Chicago are determined to keep their art and culture alive in this new country. What makes their dedication so fierce is that a genocide nearly succeeded in wiping out all of the artists.Several men sit on a mat in a computer lab at the Cambodian Association of Illinois.

In the 1960s the Blackstone Rangers—later known as the Almighty Black P Stone Nation—dominated Chicago’s South Side. The street gang was something of a paradox - a mix of both legal and illegal activity.