The Chicago Scratch Orchestra is an ensemble of experimental musicians who use free improvisation as a means for sonic exploration and expression, and they’re coming together tonight to play Links Hall. more ›

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Russian director Dziga Vertov's 1929 experimental film Man With a Movie Camera (aka The Man With the Movie Camera) is something of a masterpiece of silent film. Shot largely in Odessa with support from the Ukrainian film studio VUFKU, Vertov captures the dawn to dusk minutiae of citizens in the post-Bolshevik revolution Soviet Union. more ›

Today in "Extra Extra:" two Bears receive contract extensions and an unseeming architectural visionary passes away. more ›

20 years ago, renowned percussionists Michael Zerang and Hamid Drake held their first "solstice concert" in one of Links Hall's dance rehearsal rooms as a way for their friends to celebrate the holidays without having to conform to traditional (read: commercialized) ritual. It's now a tradition in itself; a Festivus for the rest of us, if you will. more ›

Or, rather, watch other people get naked while reciting Walt Whitman. After a several incarnations at The Cell Theatre in New York, Leaves of Grass, A Nude Choral Reading, is making an appearance at Links Hall tonight. If nudity and poetry isn't enough to sell you on this one, The New Yorker saw “something appropriately pure” about director Jeremy Bloom’s production, and Theatre Mania noted “ any chance to hear Whitman's great -- and timeless -- exploration of the human condition, should not be overlooked, whether the speakers are clothed or otherwise.” more ›

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