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Crying baby at Alinea puts controversy on menu

December 23, 2018 at 3:16 p.m.

You're out to dinner at one of Chicago's most acclaimed restaurants. It cost $470 to reserve a table for two several months ago, and you're reveling in such elaborate menu...

Roger Ebert, actress Nicole Kidman, Chaz Ebert, wife of Roger Ebert, and Tony Jones, president of the School of the Art Institute, arrive together at the Gene Siskel Film Center for a first anniversary benefit .

Chaz Ebert’s mission goes on

June 18, 2018 at 10:34 a.m.

Roger Ebert has been gone for nine months and doesn't appear to have slowed down much. His website, RogerEbert.com, is growing its readership, reports his wife of 20 years, Chaz...

Chaz and Roger Ebert attend the Making History Awards Dinner in Chicago.

Chaz Ebert’s mission goes on

November 3, 2021 at 7:52 p.m.

Roger Ebert has been gone for nine months and doesn't appear to have slowed down much. His website, RogerEbert.com, is growing its readership, reports his wife of 20 years, Chaz...

Chaz Ebert’s mission goes on

December 23, 2018 at 3:12 p.m.

Roger Ebert has been gone for nine months and doesn't appear to have slowed down much. His website, RogerEbert.com, is growing its readership, reports his wife of 20 years, Chaz...

‘August’ actresses played into movie’s wild family dynamic

August 24, 2021 at 6:47 p.m.

Out in the Oklahoma plains with pretty much nowhere to go between takes, the cast of "August: Osage County" had time to bond like an extended family, albeit not as...

Tracy Letts made changes for ‘August’s’ journey to screen

August 24, 2021 at 6:47 p.m.

Movies operate differently from plays. Tracy Letts knows and appreciates this point. There are things that the new film of "August: Osage County" can do that his Pulitzer Prize- and...

Rampant case of tone-deafness in 2013

August 24, 2021 at 6:38 p.m.

When the first-ever Alewife Awards were presented to mark 1996's most dubious cultural happenings and incidents, many Chicagoans were familiar with that stinky fish washing up on Lake Michigan's beaches....

From left to right, George Harrison, Ringo Starr, John Lennon and Paul McCartney, front. New books about The Beatles, including "The John Lennon Letters" edited by Hunter Davies and "Tune In" by Mark Lewisohn, share new information about one of the most famous bands in music history.

New Beatles books out

May 9, 2019 at 4:13 p.m.

I was in seventh grade when I began poring over Beatles books. That was shortly after I'd gotten the "Red" and "Blue" double-record compilations and started methodically, obsessively buying album...

New Beatles books out

August 24, 2021 at 6:10 p.m.

I was in seventh grade when I began poring over Beatles books. That was shortly after I'd gotten the "Red" and "Blue" double-record compilations and started methodically, obsessively buying album...

Renee Fleming, Yo-Yo Ma and Mayor Rahm Emanuel celebrate the CPS' arts plan one-year anniversary at the Symphony Center.

Rahm Emanuel, Yo-Yo Ma, Renee Fleming discuss arts in school

November 3, 2021 at 7:44 p.m.

Mayor Rahm Emanuel had cellist Yo-Yo Ma and soprano Renee Fleming where he wanted them: sitting on either side of him as he marked the one-year anniversary of the Chicago...

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