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Pitchfork Music Fest 2018: 12 things we loved (and hated) from day 1

December 12, 2018 at 9:55 p.m.

Festival season is in full swing, can rain be far behind? Puddles dotted the stages Friday as the Pitchfork Music Festival opened in Union Park. Which is why we thank...

Germany's Toni Kroos grabs his bag at the Moscow airport on his way home after losing in the World Cup's group stage.

World Cup winners and losers, Week 3: Maradona, kick saves and own goals (again)

May 31, 2019 at 4:39 p.m.

World Cup group play has concluded and the knockout round is off to an electric start. Let's dig in. Winner: Kick saves A hallmark of hockey took its place in...

Colombia fans celebrate Sunday in Russia.

World Cup winners and losers, Week 2: Burger King, own goals, Fox, flaming wallet and more

May 31, 2019 at 4:37 p.m.

Winner: Own goals The leading scorer in this year’s World Cup isn’t just Harry Kane with five goals. “Own goal” also has five thus far. “OG” has scored for Iran,...

A Mexican fan in Moscow Sunday for the German-Mexico World Cup game.

World Cup winners and losers: Mexico fans, Chicagoans, Vladimir Putin and chickens

May 31, 2019 at 4:40 p.m.

After four days, 11 games and one memorable hat trick, the World Cup already has produced many highs and lows. Let’s review. Winner: Mexico fans They came out in full...

Bears players Mitch Trubisky, Zach Miller and Dion Sims link arms for the national anthem before a game against the Packers.

Sorry, George McCaskey, but NFL anthem policy anything but ‘unifying’

May 31, 2019 at 4:28 p.m.

It’s like stupidity is a virus caused by kneeling black athletes, and people aren’t sure what to do except to keep piling on. “The policy change enacted a couple of...

If you cheered for Anthony Rizzo or Sergio Ramos, shame on you

May 31, 2019 at 4:13 p.m.

You shouldn’t do it, we shouldn’t applaud it and if you cheered the actions of a pair of sporting miscreants over the weekend, you should reconsider what you want from...

Pittsburgh Steelers offensive tackle Alejandro Villanueva is the sole member of the team to stand in the open for the national anthem while his teammates remained in the tunnel before the game against the Chicago Bears.

NFL’s shortsighted anthem policy spits in the face of American ideals

May 31, 2019 at 4:30 p.m.

Just when you think the NFL is done making your soul pulsate with detestation, it says, “Hold my beer.” The league on Wednesday dealt with the idea of protest in...

P. Diddy revealed as the buyer of the $21 million Kerry James Marshall painting

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

Hip-hop mogul P. Diddy has been revealed as the buyer of Chicago artist Kerry James Marshall’s “Past Times,” the work that sold at auction this week for $21 million, a...

Shame? Insufficient. It’s time to relegate the junk teams in sports.

May 31, 2019 at 4:28 p.m.

Guess what. If you follow American sports, you support a system that celebrates and rewards mediocrity. Sorry. Some call it "parity." They're fools. It's codified adequacy. But there is a...

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>

Flaming Lips, Black Star (yes, them), Brandi Carlile headline an action-packed Taste of Chicago music lineup

December 13, 2018 at 8:47 a.m.

Um ... the Taste of Chicago crowd might not be quite ready for this as it strives to eat its way across Grant Park, but there is yet another great...

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