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Amazon Go has shown us the future of retail — and in it, we’re broke and unhealthy. Here’s the fix.

December 15, 2018 at 1:56 a.m.

You’ve got the butter, the eggs, the organic salad greens and the laundry soap. The paper towels just fit into that rack underneath the cart. And so you weave your...

Should jokes that play on gender be off-limits?

Can we laugh now? How to handle gender-based humor in the age of #MeToo

December 15, 2018 at 1:03 a.m.

As their plane is going down, the woman turns to the man next to her. “Make me a woman before I die,” she says. He takes off all his clothes,...

Belinda Chang on Monday, Dec. 18, 2017 for a roundtable discussion of sexual harassment in the restaurant industry.

How Chicago’s top women chefs fight sexual harassment: ‘It’s disconcerting, the things that go on still in kitchens’

May 31, 2019 at 4:03 p.m.

They are, unapologetically, a tough bunch: survivors raised up in a world of literal fire and 16-hour shifts on their feet. They accept, almost without comment, bare-knuckled realities like 60...

A boy holds out his hat for autographs from bull riders following the first round of the Professional Bull Riders Chicago Invitational on Jan. 13, 2018.

Professional bull riders hunt for glory, 8 seconds at a time

December 17, 2018 at 4:32 p.m.

It’s “Celebrate America” night at the Allstate Arena, and in the concourse the fans are lining up for nachos, hustling past the Visa credit card booth to the blue-curtained gates,...

There is no quicker path to January despair than a big list of important things we need to get done.

Slow order: How to ditch your to-do list and get more done

May 23, 2019 at 9:00 a.m.

It’s January, the National Month of Feeling Bad About Yourself. I know this, because holiday decorations, which have been spreading cheer and those parasitic glitter specks since October, have now...

Riccardo Muti walks near the podium after conducting members of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra at Lane Tech High School Wednesday Nov. 15, 2017 in Chicago.

The CSO goes to high school for a gig at Lane Tech

December 17, 2018 at 4:40 p.m.

The line running through the hall at Lane Technical College Prep High School, the city’s largest public high school, was not unusual — if there’s one thing you learn in...

Gerry Hansell holds a blackstripe topminnow he caught at the Independence Grove Forest Preserve on Sept. 21, 2017 in Libertyville.

Microfishing targets smallest fish around with pocket-sized rods and minuscule hooks

December 17, 2018 at 4:41 p.m.

Gerry Hansell has too many worms. Otherwise, he’s well equipped for a lucky weekday afternoon spent fishing — microfishing, to be specific: the art of chasing not trophy bass or...

Nick Cave has been singing about mortality for decades, and he's really good at it. Whether the narratives are biblical or pulpy, the victims innocents or death row convicts, the circumstances comprehensible or cruelly random, Cave's songs are on intimate terms with the infinite ways a life can be extinguished. And yet, "Skeleton Tree", his latest album with his estimable band, the Bad Seeds, is a relatively concise song cycle shadowed by death that feels different than all the rest. <a href="http://www.chicagotribune.com/entertainment/music/kot/sc-music-nick-cave-skeleton-tree-ent-0916-20160916-column.html" target="_blank">Read the full review.</a>

Max Sansing’s art taps a potent memory from his South Side childhood

December 17, 2018 at 4:42 p.m.

There will still be plenty of studio jewelry, pottery and glass to check out at this year's SOFA fair, open Nov. 3 through 5 at Navy Pier, but Chicago artist...

Artist Christo revisits the MCA to commemorate his 1969 wrapping project

December 17, 2018 at 4:49 p.m.

Christo appears on the broad steps of the Museum of Contemporary Art, caught for a moment against the glassy facade, amid a clot of tourists as he reaches the door....

DJ Jlin, from left, Brendan Francis Newnam, Rico Gagliano and Julia Turshen. We chatted with the musician, etiquette experts and chef for a bit of Entertaining 101.

‘Dinner Party Download’ hosts dish on 3 conversations to avoid at a gathering

May 10, 2019 at 1:28 a.m.

As hosts of American Public Media's podcast "The Dinner Party Download" and authors of the book "Brunch Is Hell: How to Save the World by Throwing a Dinner Party," due...

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