Peter Sagal

Parks and Rec Saved My Postdivorce Life

September 1, 2026 at 12:18 p.m.

Illustration by Jason Schneider There is nothing exactly like living in Hell, but there is something close to it. In Hell, where I lived for most of 2013 and 2014,...

The Art of Ordering at Johnnie’s Beef

July 2, 2026 at 2:43 p.m.

Rules 1 through 3: Rehearse, request, repeat

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>

From the archives: Dinner with Stormy Daniels — and my wife

December 18, 2018 at 12:10 a.m.

Editor's note: Stormy Daniels has been in the news and in the courts lately concerning her relationship with Donald J. Trump. In 2005, "Wait Wait Don't Tell me" host Peter...

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