Ashok Selvam is the former James Beard Award-winning regional editor for Eater’s Midwest region, in charge of coverage in Chicago, Detroit, and the Twin Cities. He’s a native Chicagoan and had been ...

Thalia Hall is once again opening all of its doors for a fully loaded summer edition of the Thalia Hall Free For All, a free-admission building crawl featuring programming across Thalia Hall’s main ...

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Joy Oladokun logged a double-duty shift Friday at a sold-out Thalia Hall. Recalling a bygone era when the likes of Bob Dylan, Neil Young and the Grateful Dead opened their shows with an acoustic set ...