Column: Godzilla, bigger than ever, stomps into the Music Box. I feel so seen.
For one week, the esteemed art house will screen 24 of Godzilla’s 35 live-action movies from the past 70 years.
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Summer books 2024: It’s summertime and the reading’s easy. Or epic. Choose your own adventure.
From beach reads and sports books to histories and culture war, our 44 titles for the next three months. Get reading.
Garry Wills at 90: The influential historian has become his own iconoclast
The Pulitzer winner who has advised presidents is still writing. His influential books include “Lincoln at Gettysburg” and “Why I Am a Catholic,” but he's decided he no longer is.
Column: Is our flag at half-staff all the time now? For Memorial Day, we asked why
This Memorial Day, assuming you wake up early enough, you may notice the United States flag at half-staff. When you get up matters, because only on Memorial Day, Old Glory...
The bugs are coming! If a cicada invasion sounds familiar, thank Hollywood
They arrive by the millions, emerging, crawling, mindlessly feeding. At your local multiplex ... or in your backyard?
Column: Kids like to swear. Do I blame Olivia Rodrigo? Or do I blame myself?
I turned to the parent next to me at the United Center and asked what she was going to do about all the, you know ... all of the swearing.
Column: Devo in concert in Chicago: At 50, no signs of de-evolution
Fifty years after forming, Devo has never broken into laughter at its own satire. At least not on stage. They remain a dystopic mirror of pop pretense, still play their...
In memoriam: As a ’90s producer and music tastemaker, Steve Albini was brutally honest — and usually right
He was vintage Gen-X sarcastic, ironic, contrarian, principled. He was the record store owner who frowns at what you bring to his cash register.
Chicago author Jonathan Eig wins Pulitzer Prize for his groundbreaking biography of Martin Luther King, Jr.
Eig said he was home alone in Lakeview when he heard the announcement. “It’s kind of hard to top the year I just had."
C2E2: Our 9 best bets for 2024, from people-watching to prom
This weekend's Chicago Comic & Entertainment Expo is proof that fans still want their geek gatherings live and in-person. Our list of what not to miss.