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Chicago chef Stephanie Izard welcomes baby boy

Chicago chef Stephanie Izard said she and her husband Gary Valentine welcomed their first child, son Ernie William Valentine, on Thursday. The couple's son was born in Chicago at 6:29...
Kanye West performs to a sold-out crowd at the House of Blues in 2007.

Five outstanding Kayne West rants

Kanye West has a history of saying whatever is on his mind whenever the microphone and spotlight are on. Here is a subjective list of Kanye's top five rants: 1....
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>

Watch Kanye West deliver an epic rant on ‘Ellen’

Kanye West unleashed yet another classic and outlandish outburst. This time, West delivered a monologue during the Ellen DeGeneres talk show on Thursday. The discombobulated segment touched on West's upbringing,...
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>

Kevin Hart hits Chicago for upcoming series

Kevin Hart recently made a stop in Chicago, and it wasn't to deliver punch lines. Hart is working on a new show for Comedy Central, an eight-episode series called "Kevin...
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>

Double Door eviction trial begins

The nearly-seven-month legal battle between landlord Brian Strauss and iconic Wicker Park club Double Door will drag on. The case went to trial Wednesday afternoon after an agreement between the...