The art of the sell: New Chicago Brand Museum puts those Kellogg’s boxes in a new light
A new museum devoted to consumer packaging, logos and all things marketing is a labor of love for a Chicago couple.
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For the fall Humanities Festival, Hilton Als, Daniel Kraus and a little music therapy
Along with essayist Als and author Kraus, the singer-songwriter Susanna Hoffs will open the festival, which runs through mid-November.
Cat tours arrive in Chicago. The first is a purrfectly big smash.
Cat lovers unite! The streets and sidewalks of Lincoln Square were filled on Saturday with felinophiles touring the neighborhood's front windows and porches to see all the cats who lived...
In 1976, Illinois buried a ton of time capsules. What we’re digging up now is complicated, or sometimes weird.
JCPenney catalogs, an old baseball, essays to the future. Or sometimes just boring paperwork. In making these Bicentennial time capsules, what were our ancestors thinking?
Review: Windy City Smokeout is influencers, brands, Texas barbecue and, oh right, country music
Chicago has long had real country music fans, but the music here is more pop country. A lot of folks said they came more for the food than the bands....
Read ‘The Odyssey’ with Mary Beard, not with Elon Musk
As Christopher Nolan's movie arrives in movie theaters, we spoke with a classics expert about the right way to read Homer's book. Rule No. 1: Don't read it because you're...
Column: What I learned visiting a Freedom Truck, a mobile museum made for America’s 250th birthday
The Freedom Truck mobile museum program, rolling nationwide through December, amounts to six semi-trucks of Semiquincentennial pride.
Chiseling out the Goodman’s ‘Iceboy!,’ piece by piece, bit by bit
Inside the rehearsals for the world premiere musical starring Megan Mullally and Nick Offerman, directed by Marc Bruni.
The Obama center’s A-list opening, or: The art of having famous friends
Stephen Colbert, Dave Chappelle, Tom Hanks, Tyler Perry and Oprah Winfrey all attended the opening ceremony for the Obama Presidential Center.
Why the Moonshine Store — in tiny Martinsville — was a viral restaurant before there were viral restaurants
There are days, especially in summer, when there’s a cheeseburger line at 8 a.m. at the Moonshine Store.