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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>

Chance the Rapper throwing a free rooftop party to spur voting

May 23, 2019 at 11:17 a.m.

Cubs fever was a nice break from all the presidential political yammering. Now, a return to our regular programming, America. At least folks like Chance the Rapper are geared up...

‘Hamilton’ ticket prices drop: A different kind of World Series win

June 9, 2018 at 5:26 a.m.

Bonus for the die-hard non-sports-fans (or just those who've been longing for tickets to Hamilton) among us: StubHub prices for tonight's performance, which coincides with the Cubs' World Series final,...

The first peek inside the Obamas’ private White House: Stylish, but what’s with that stereo?

May 23, 2019 at 11:17 a.m.

We all knew Michelle redecorated — now we know how it turned out. Architectural Digest released the first-ever photo tour of the Obamas' private quarters, designed by Michael S. Smith...

Star chef Stephanie Izard turns the goat into a Cubs good luck charm

December 17, 2018 at 5:30 p.m.

Sure, her name is directly linked with a goat (see her beloved near-west eateries Girl & the Goat, Little Goat, and Duck, Duck Goat) but star chef Stephanie Izard isn't...

Chance the Rapper’s good week: A nod from POTUS and Spotify’s Top 25 Under 25

May 23, 2019 at 11:17 a.m.

Chance the Rapper, making a West Coast tour swing this week, was followed by news that must make him feel pretty good: The 23-year-old Chicago rapper was named to Spotify's...

Allen's work with mastectomy patients can be transforming in large and small ways. Though Tsai, who calls herself "kind of a conservative Midwestern woman" had never had a tattoo before her mastectomy, she is now adding additional artwork to her back.

Artist’s mastectomy tattoos reveal the beauty of survival

August 19, 2019 at 3:33 a.m.

David Allen rests his forearm on the bare back of his client, a record producer, and applies the needle of a nearly silent tattoo machine to the stencil of a...

How Tony Karman catapulted Expo Chicago into the art world spotlight

December 17, 2018 at 5:35 p.m.

"We're building a city," says Tony Karman, walking briskly past a nascent maze of gray-hued walls rising from the floor of Navy Pier's exhibition hall. Karman, president and director of...

Lust-worthy herringbone for your kitchen — that you can afford

May 30, 2019 at 1:13 p.m.

Among things you may have lusted for while looking at Pinterest or shelter mags, if you're prone to that sort of lust: herringbone floors. The kind that only the lucky...

Eric Wesley’s quest for high art leads to a Taco Bell

December 17, 2018 at 5:44 p.m.

"Maybe I want to be famous," says Eric Wesley. The artist slouches in a metal folding chair on the edge of a nearly vacant parking lot in Cahokia, Ill., assuming...

Jlin’s smart-kid roots helped forge a new-order dance music star

June 10, 2018 at 8:01 a.m.

Jerrilynn Patton had just finished up her mind-numbing, 12-hour shift at U.S. Steel's East Chicago mill when the call came in. Bone tired, she picked up the phone. "What would...

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