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British singers George Michael, right, and Lisa Stansfield perform together on stage at the Freddie Mercury Tribute Concert at London's Wembley Arena, United Kingdom, on April 20, 1992.

The stakes were high for George Michael’s solo career. Then ‘Faith’ changed everything.

June 8, 2018 at 1:22 p.m.

The pressure is always intense when a singer goes solo, but for George Michael, the stakes were sky-high. Michael, who died on Christmas Day at age 53, was only 23...

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>

10 questions we still have after the ‘Gilmore Girls’ revival

June 8, 2018 at 10:00 p.m.

Spoiler alert: Do not read if you haven't watched "Gilmore Girls: A Year in the Life" on Netflix. Netflix's "Gilmore Girls: A Year in the Life" revival (theoretically) had one...

How to explain why you’re ignoring your family to watch ‘Gilmore Girls’ on Thanksgiving weekend

June 8, 2018 at 10:52 p.m.

When Netflix announced that the release date for the "Gilmore Girls: A Year in the Life" revival would be Nov. 25, the day after Thanksgiving, one fact became clear: Many...

Selena Gomez gets candid at AMAs: ‘I was absolutely broken inside.’

June 8, 2018 at 11:31 p.m.

It's never easy to have a real, emotional moment at an award show. But pop star Selena Gomez pulled it off at the American Music Awards, where she appeared for...

NBC’s ‘This Is Us’ is officially the surprise breakout hit of the fall TV season

June 9, 2018 at 9:06 a.m.

It's exactly a month into the fall TV season, just long enough that we can finally start to tell which freshman broadcast shows might have a real, lasting effect beyond...

Seth Meyers needed to find his place in late night; then Trump ran for president

June 9, 2018 at 11:53 a.m.

As Jon Stewart discovered during "Indecision 2000," late-night television can be a powerful tool when the political world threatens to cave in on itself. Just as the "Daily Show's" coverage...

‘The Mindy Project’ has become a lesson in how to destroy a once-great character

June 9, 2018 at 1:49 p.m.

When "The Mindy Project" started on Fox in 2012, it was clear that the central character, Mindy Lahiri (creator/writer Mindy Kaling), and her workplace nemesis, Danny Castellano (Chris Messina), would...

Emmy Awards 2016 predictions: Who will win, who deserves to win and who could surprise us all

June 12, 2018 at 6:34 a.m.

After years of fans crying foul, "The Americans" finally got some Emmy nomination love -- but can the FX Cold War drama actually win? Will anyone break the "Veep" stranglehold...

Taylor Swift and Tom Hiddleston break up after being mocked all summer

June 12, 2018 at 12:35 p.m.

Taylor Swift and Tom Hiddleston, the strangest celebrity spectacle of the summer, have reportedly broken up after almost three months of dating. The news comes from Us Weekly, which splashed...

How is ‘Sharknado’ still a thing?

June 10, 2018 at 10:14 a.m.

The fourth (fourth!) movie in Syfy's famously ridiculous "Sharknado" franchise airs on Sunday night, and of course it's called "Sharknado: The 4th Awakens." After killer sharknadoes hit Los Angeles, New...

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