Column: There once was a time when our city was the country music capital
Some say that without Chicago, and without “National Barn Dance” on WLS radio, there would have been no Grand Ole Opry.
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WTTW’s Geoffrey Baer explores the mysteries around us
“Chicago Mysteries” premieres April 16. When you get to know secrets and solve mysteries, does that not take some of the fun out of life? Not in this case.
Column: A new baseball season brings back Updike, Brashler and Plimpton
Literature has ever shadowed baseball. There has been writing nearly as great as baseball writing in horse racing and in boxing, but baseball has topped all.
As memories of a Chicago nightclub echo, a Johnny Carson book is set to arrive
On a recent Friday night in a room upstairs at Gibsons, a few men told stories about nightclubs and entertainers vanished and about a world that once contained Mister Kelly's...
An afternoon with Nelson Algren and some seniors as part of CPD’s ‘Chicago in Film’ series
This event was part of a program for senior citizens who live within the 24th district, which covers parts of the Rogers Park and Edgewater neighborhoods.
The story behind New York’s hottest new restaurant, Hamburger America, and a look at the owner’s time in Chicago
Like many of you, I like hamburgers. But no one I have ever met likes (and knows more about) hamburgers than George Motz.
Uplifting solo show ‘Impact’ was born from the Flight 103 terrorist tragedy
Playwright and performer Amy Engelhardt had been friends with some of those who died on Pan Am Flight 103 in 1988. She's bringing a show created from those memories to...
With Bond’s gizmos now at the MSI, a pause to remember Ian Fleming
It started in January 1952, when a hard-drinking, chain-smoking 43-year-old man sat down at a typewriter and banged out a novel that began, “The scent and smoke and sweat of...
The Newberry Library’s first female president is making big plans
If you don't know this Chicago gem on Walton Street well, its new leader Astrida Orle Tantillo is determined to make you aware of it.
Ronnie Marmo is back in town with Lenny Bruce and ‘Dr. Bob,’ opening this week
Ronnie Marmo is back in town, bringing with him a new bride, an old friend named Lenny Bruce and a play about a couple of men who stopped drinking and...