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The cloudy weather Monday night might keep astronomy enthusiasts from seeing the Strawberry Moon, pictured here in June 2016.

Monday’s ‘Strawberry Moon’ might hide behind clouds in Chicago. Here’s what you’ll miss

June 17, 2019 at 12:14 p.m.

Monday's full moon has a special name, tailor-made for the season: the Strawberry Moon. But before anyone digs out ingredients for a shortcake, Adler Planetarium Director of Public Observing Michelle...

A new algorithm could give individuals the ability to tailor their diets to their bodies.

Slow down the calorie counting: Personalized diets could be the future of healthy eating, study suggests

June 16, 2019 at 4:45 p.m.

People often speak about fad diets the way they speak about exes: intensely, specifically, intimately. Atkins, Dukan, Paleo, baby food. None last, though lasting is promised, and all feed a...

Chicago’s Queer Contra practices an old dance (think Jane Austen, think ‘Oklahoma!’), made new

June 12, 2019 at 8:47 a.m.

If you've never heard of contra, it's best described analogously: like square-dancing, with a "caller" serving as emcee, announcing each beat in any given dance. Like swing dancing, with one...

‘Strip Joker’ bares all in body-positive comedy show

June 11, 2019 at 8:44 a.m.

Stand-up comedy demands exposure: a joke lives or dies in the seconds before a laugh, and the comedian lives or dies with it. High-stakes vulnerability, a performer laid bare —...

‘Hamlet’ by the Back Room Shakespeare Project is not your mother’s Shakespeare

June 6, 2019 at 2:40 p.m.

Most theatergoers have a mental image of what Shakespeare looks, sounds and feels like: puffy shorts, British dialect, almost falling asleep in a hundred-dollar balcony seat. There's not much room...

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