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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>

Should country singers speak up about politics? We asked them

June 5, 2018 at 12:40 p.m.

Country singers are faced with a conundrum when it comes to President Donald Trump: As part of the most conservative-leaning musical genre, shouldn't they have something to say about the...

More ‘Gilmore Girls’? Actually, Netflix, we’re good

June 5, 2018 at 4:26 p.m.

When news broke last year that "Gilmore Girls" would return for a four-episode revival on Netflix, the internet -- to put it lightly -- lost its mind. The reaction was...

Casey Affleck poses in the press room with the Oscar for best actor during the 89th Academy Awards on Feb. 26, 2017, in Los Angeles.

Was the Oscars best picture mix-up a Jimmy Kimmel prank? Conspiracy theories begin

June 5, 2018 at 7:15 p.m.

There's only one thing people of the internet love more than an absolutely epic mistake on live television - conspiracy theories about how it could have happened. A few hours...

Lifetime’s ‘Duke student porn star’ movie is scathing commentary on college costs

June 5, 2018 at 11:56 p.m.

Before Lifetime agreed to make a movie called "From Straight A's to XXX," inspired by the true story of a Duke University freshman who moonlighted as a porn star to...

Unscripted TV ponders reality of Trump’s America

June 6, 2018 at 12:16 a.m.

Three days after the first reality TV president was sworn into office, hundreds of reality TV producers swarmed into Washington for the RealScreen Summit, an annual conference for nonfiction programmers....

Your guide to the ‘La La Land’ backlash

June 6, 2018 at 5:07 a.m.

When Ryan Gosling and Emma Stone's "La La Land" won nearly universal praise from critics late last year as a delightful vestige of classic Hollywood musicals, you could practically feel...

Why did this Arkansas TV station cut an explicit story out of ‘The Bachelor’?

June 6, 2018 at 5:30 a.m.

On Monday night's episode of ABC's "The Bachelor," contestant Raven Gates told quite the explicit anecdote about walking in on her ex-boyfriend having sex with another woman. But viewers watching...

‘The Bachelor’ and Corinne: How a controversial contestant becomes the show’s villain

June 6, 2018 at 9:26 a.m.

Aspiring reality-TV contestants do not always think logically - there is always at least one person who thinks: "The producers could never make me into a villain. I'm too nice!"...

Six miles beneath the Pacific Ocean surface, a team of oceanographers and experts discover an entire hidden ecosystem laden with species "completely unknown to science." But Meg comes calling, attacking the submersible piloted by the ex-wife (Jessica McNamee) of rescue diver Jonas Taylor (Jason Statham).
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Late-night hosts mock Donald Trump for idea that Meryl Streep is ‘overrated’

June 6, 2018 at 9:22 a.m.

As you may have heard, Meryl Streep called out Donald Trump in her Golden Globes acceptance speech on Sunday night for the Cecil B. DeMille Award -- and the president-elect...

Just how creepy will ‘Nashville’ get with this new stalker story line?

June 6, 2018 at 10:23 a.m.

"Nashville" is no stranger to dark story lines - the country music drama has tackled everything from gun violence to a murder-suicide. And in the closing minutes of the two-hour...

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