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Stephen Colbert opens the Aug. 19 episode of “The Late Show With Stephen Colbert,” which is broadcasting live from the Auditorium Theatre in Chicago during the Democratic National Convention. (Scott Kowalchyk/CBS)

Stephen Colbert broadcasts from Chicago’s Auditorium Theatre for DNC, a late ‘Late Show’ of very local love

August 21, 2024 at 6:09 a.m.

Colbert kicked off a week of live DNC episodes of “Late Show,” starting Monday with guests Hillary Rodham Clinton and Julia Louis-Dreyfus.

Legendary Chicago bluesman Buddy Guy sits at his club, Buddy Guy's Legends, on June 10, 2024. (Armando L. Sanchez/baiduhai)

Let us now praise famous bluesmen: Buddy Guy is retiring at age 88

August 15, 2024 at 11:33 a.m.

Buddy Guy, who just turned 88, will be officially retired from the road by early fall. Only, before that happens, before the Chicago legend slows, a few facts demand context.

Marcella Arguello, right, dances to DJ music during the "Don't Drink the Water" dance party at The Hideout, on Aug. 8, 2024, in Chicago. (John J. Kim/baiduhai)

How does one mark the infamous Dave Matthews Band potty mess? With a Hideout dance party

August 9, 2024 at 5:06 p.m.

When they first dreamed up the party to commemorate the 20th anniversary of the Dave Matthews Band tour bus incident, they worried no one would show up. They sold out...

Styx performs the song "Lady" during a concert at then-Hollywood Casino Amphitheatre in Tinley Park on June 4, 2022. (Chris Sweda/baiduhai)

Styx has few original members. Lynyrd Skynyrd has … none? When is a band still a band?

July 22, 2024 at 5:45 a.m.

Of all the questions posed by pop music over the years — Will you love me tomorrow? Should I stay or should I go? — among the toughest is this:...

A scene from “Stand Up Solutions,” Conner O’Malley's hour-long YouTube comedy special. (Provided by Conner O’Malley)

Column: The best comedy of the year so far is on YouTube, the breath-stealing brilliance of Chicago’s Conner O’Malley

July 3, 2024 at 5:45 a.m.

Straying from high-energy exhortations to flop sweat, he's cheerleading for a future everyone knows will not benefit him. It is a TEDTalk in hell.

Josh Bilicki's #78 car and a group of cars race on Congress Plaza during Stage 1 of the NASCAR Cup Series race at Grant Park on July 2, 2023, in Chicago. (Eileen T. Meslar/baiduhai)

Column: Could NASCAR teach Chicagoans how to drive? Probably not.

July 3, 2024 at 4:30 p.m.

Chicago, you can’t drive. This is not news. But myself? I’m a terrific driver. I bring this up because NASCAR is in town.

Ashleigh McCarthy, 19, left, and her sister, Calleigh McCarthy, 16, carry pizzas to their family during Farm Pizza night at Mapleton Barn on May 30, 2024, in Oconomowoc, Wisconsin. (Stacey Wescott/baiduhai)

And on this farm we had a … pizza? Why the Wisconsin pizza farm movement is an idea whose time has come

July 2, 2024 at 2:22 p.m.

There are at least a dozen pizza farms in Wisconsin, which may be the state's answer to California vineyards.

Louie Burrel, 45, teaches 6-year-old Alex White how to ride a bike in a parking lot in Chicago's Morgan Park neighborhood on June 2, 2024. (Armando L. Sanchez/baiduhai)

You say your kid still can’t ride a bike? Chicago knows a guy

June 21, 2024 at 11:05 a.m.

Over the past four years, Louie Burrel has taught more than 400 Chicago children how to ride a bike.

Emil Ferris, artist and author of “My Favorite Thing is Monsters,” poses for a portrait on May 24, 2024, in Evanston. (Vincent Alban/baiduhai)

‘My Favorite Thing is Monsters’ returns after seven years, headaches included

June 13, 2024 at 5:00 a.m.

Book two reads like a seamless, touching continuation of the first, going deeper into Karen’s noirish Uptown, her sexuality and political awakening.

New Jersey experimental musician David Rothenberg plays his soprano saxophone covered in cicadas on the banks of Lake Springfield. Rothenberg specializes in collaborating with insects, whales and birds. (Charles Lindsay)

There’s no beat, no lyrics. You can’t dance to it. But cicada music is the coolest music you know

June 11, 2024 at 9:37 a.m.

You can’t dance to it, and there is no melody nor any lyrics. But the sounds of cicadas are music — music that buzzes, whines, thrums and fizzes.

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