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Actor Adrien Brody attends the 2015 Independent Spirit Awards in Santa Monica.

‘Birdman,’ Linklater, other Oscars favorites win Spirit Awards

May 25, 2019 at 1:41 p.m.

Seeing a winners' list that includes "Birdman," Michael Keaton, Julianne Moore, J.K. Simmons, Patricia Arquette and Richard Linklater, you might think you're reading tomorrow's news today. That's because this year's...

An Oscar statue stands on the red carpet as preparations are made for the 86th Academy Awards in Los Angeles.

Os-Caro quiz: Test your Oscar knowledge

June 15, 2018 at 11:20 p.m.

Welcome to the silver statuette edition of the Os-Caro Quiz as it marks 25 years of taunting-- we mean challenging-- you with oh-so-beguiling Academy Awards trivia. This thing has been...

Quiz: Test your Oscar knowledge

April 5, 2019 at 10:32 p.m.

Welcome to the silver statuette edition of the Os-Caro Quiz as it marks 25 years of taunting — we mean challenging — you with oh-so-beguiling Academy Awards trivia. This thing...

The travels of a cello made in 1694

June 16, 2018 at 2:20 a.m.

John Sharp joined the Chicago Symphony Orchestra as its principal cellist in the 1986-87 season, toward the end of which he bought the instrument he currently plays on stage. This...

Britt Bollig, 33, of Chicago, wears decorated sunglasses outside Wrigley Field before the Cubs 2012 season opener against the Nationals.

‘Go Cubs Go’ must go

August 19, 2019 at 7:53 a.m.

Attention, Billy Corgan, Eddie Vedder and all of you lesser-known Cubs-fan songwriters: We have an assignment for you. It's time for "Go Cubs Go" to be gone — at least...

Incoming CSO head is quiet, but will be heard

June 16, 2018 at 5:27 a.m.

Like just about anyone who ever has held or applied for a leadership post, incoming Chicago Symphony Orchestra Association President Jeff Alexander is used to being asked the "vision" question,...

"Selma" director Ava DuVernay (right) and star David Oyelowo(left), who plays Martin Luther King at Tempo Cafe in Chicago.

‘Selma’ resonates now more than ever

March 29, 2019 at 8:43 p.m.

The conversation came the morning after protesters rallied in the wake of the grand jury decision not to indict the police officer involved in the chokehold death of Eric Garner,...

Shia LaBeouf attends the 'Nymphomaniac Volume I (long version)' premiere during 64th Berlinale International Film Festival at Berlinale Palast on February 9, 2014 in Berlin, Germany.

The Alewives: Our annual awards for arts futility

April 5, 2019 at 9:49 p.m.

The hubbub over hack-attacked Sony's release of "The Interview" was too big, too serious, too far-reaching to qualify for the Alewife Awards. Since 1996 these prizes, named after the stinky...

Actor David Oyelowo at the Washington, D.C., premiere of "Selma" on Thursday, Dec. 11, 2014, at the Newseum.

David Oyelowo’s two kings

June 18, 2018 at 2:16 a.m.

I first saw "Selma" star David Oyelowo act was when I traveled to Ann Arbor, Mich., in 2001 for the Royal Shakespeare Company's marathon, two-day performance of Shakespeare's "Henry VI,...

The story behind a platinum flute

June 18, 2018 at 3:01 a.m.

Christina Smith has been principal flutist for the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra since 1991 and was guest principal flutist on the Chicago Symphony Orchestra's recent European tour. She will reunite with...

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