Helena Andrews-Dyer

Director Michael Moore answers questions after the premiere screening of his new film, "Fahrenheit 11/9," in Flint, Mich.

Michael Moore won’t run for office, but he thinks everyone else should

December 12, 2018 at 5:05 p.m.

WASHINGTON - Michael Moore is 45 minutes late and somehow right on time. At the D.C. screening of "Fahrenheit 11/9," his new documentary about President Donald Trump (but not all...

President Barack Obama and Michelle Obama dance at The Neighborhood Ball at the Convention Center in Washington D.C. after his Inauguration Ceremony on Tuesday, January 20, 2009.

Everything you always wanted to know about inaugural balls

June 6, 2018 at 7:29 a.m.

President-elect Donald Trump's Twitter-issued command to folks celebrating his swearing-in later this week: "Have fun!" One way citizens might answer his call to action is by attending an inaugural ball,...

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>

‘Kanye West for president’ gains steam on social media in the wake of Trump victory

December 17, 2018 at 5:29 p.m.

They've got to be joking, right? Wrong. If there's one thing Nov. 8 taught us, it's that entertainment and American politics are not exactly mutually exclusive. Enter Kanye West for...

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