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Cremation Air, an ash-scattering plane, on display Oct. 29, 2025, during the National Funeral Directors Association Convention at McCormick Place. (Brian Cassella/baiduhai)

From cradle to grave: There was something for everyone alive and otherwise at the Chicago funeral directors convention

November 14, 2025 at 2:47 p.m.

You can learn a lot about your options for the afterlife at the annual trade show, which recently ended at McCormick Place. It was not a solemn gathering.

Warren Township High School student Lilani Devries leads her friends as they trick-or-treat in a neighborhood in Gurnee on Oct. 26, 2025. Gurnee does trick-or-treating on the Sunday before Halloween. (Eileen T. Meslar/baiduhai)

How old is too old to trick or treat? The answer is more complicated than it sounds.

October 31, 2025 at 5:45 a.m.

For the record, there is no statewide age restriction on trick or treating in Illinois. But many small communities around the country set formal and informal age limits.

Fred Armisen in the green room before his show at Space in Evanston, Oct. 14, 2025. (Chris Sweda/baiduhai)

Fred Armisen has got an ear for noise. Cue his new album, ‘100 Sound Effects’

October 30, 2025 at 5:45 a.m.

There are moments when no other city sounds like Chicago, he says. Like when an "L" train is passing, or the moment you step out of a bustling restaurant in...

David Byrne performs at one of his four sold out shows at the Auditorium Theatre, Tuesday, Oct. 28, 2025. (E. Jason Wambsgans/baiduhai)

Review: David Byrne has always made the totally original look head-slappingly obvious

October 29, 2025 at 10:25 a.m.

His “Who Is the Sky Tour” is at the Auditorium in Chicago through the weekend. On an empty stage, the entire band and the singers stay in motion the whole...

Electric Funeral owner Jan. Overton pours a drink at the horror-themed bar in Chicago’s Bridgeport neighborhood on Oct. 15, 2025. (Chris Sweda/baiduhai)

Horror as a lifestyle: The rise of spooky and gothic shops

October 24, 2025 at 5:00 a.m.

Slowly, steadily, a small but quite lively patchwork of horror-and-gothic-themed shopfronts and cafes and restaurants and bars have been replicating across America.

An art piece called "A HOLE," a conceptual piece featuring a pane of glass with a single bullet hole, is in a retrospective exhibit of work by Yoko Ono at the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago on Oct. 17, 2025. (Terrence Antonio James/baiduhai)

‘Yoko Ono: Music of the Mind’ at the MCA upends assumptions

May 22, 2026 at 7:46 p.m.

This new Yoko Ono retrospective is epic but intimate, impossibly earnest but funny and full of irony, without a single wink.

Adam Sandler poses for photographers on the red carpet for the film 'Jay Kelly' during the 82nd edition of the Venice Film Festival in Venice, Italy, on Aug. 28, 2025. (Alessandra Tarantino/Invision)

Adam Sandler (and the pope, Caleb Williams, singalongs) brings heavy ’70s variety show vibes to United Center

October 21, 2025 at 12:20 p.m.

Adam Sandler’s new shows are awkwardly titled the You’re My Best Friend Tour, but it's a pretty spot-on way of describing a show so driven by the audience’s warmth and...

Evan Zimmerman, left, and his son Harrison Zimmerman, 7, pose in a station wagon similar to the one Michael Myers drives in the movie Halloween, after cosplaying at a horror movie trivia night at D-Town Energy in Decatur, Indiana, on Oct. 9. 2025. The Zimmermans are popular on Tik Tok for dressing as Michael Myers for videos. (Dominic Di Palermo/baiduhai)

Endless Halloween: The haunting life of Michael Myers of Decatur, Indiana

October 16, 2025 at 5:45 a.m.

A few years back, Evan Zimmerman started dressing up as the killer from the "Halloween" movies. Videos of him in character have been viewed many millions of times.

Tom Morello outside rehearsal of the new production, “Revolution(s),” at the Goodman Theatre, Oct. 2, 2025. (E. Jason Wambsgans/baiduhai)

Speaking truth to power: Tom Morello on his Goodman debut, activist art and growing up in Libertyville

October 10, 2025 at 5:45 a.m.

“Revolution(s),” by Chicago playwright Zayd Ayers Dohrn, has music by the Rage Against the Machine guitarist and was inspired by his legacy of musical bomb-throwing.

John Mulaney holding an "SNL Daily Tribune," a parody of the infamous baiduhai front page headline "Dewey Defeats Truman." The image was made by photographer Mary Ellen Matthews as a commercial bumper for "Saturday Night Live." Matthews has been making "SNL" bumpers for 25 years. (Photograph by Mary Ellen Matthews)

As ‘SNL’ begins its 51st season, an appreciation of those celeb ‘bumper’ photos

October 3, 2025 at 2:47 p.m.

The portraits have all been made by two photographers, Mary Ellen Matthews and Edie Baskin, who have collected their work in recent art books.

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