The women behind the resurrected Seipp Brewing Company and Brewseum know their beer
For a guy who doesn't drink beer, I have a surprising number of friends who drink a lot of beer, write about beer and are passionate about beer. There's my...
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Kukla, Fran, Ollie and You: Some Chicago puppets charmed a generation and helped ‘invent’ TV
There she is, Madame Ophelia Oogelpuss, encased in glass and part of an ongoing exhibition at the Chicago History Museum. Her famous puppet friends, Kukla and Ollie, are not on...
MacArthur Foundation ‘genius’ grant winners for 2022 include 3 Chicagoans
In 1981, the MacArthur Foundation began awarding annual fellowships. These have consisted of monetary awards of $800,000 (an increase this year, bumped up from a decade ago and paid out...
Singer Jamie O’Reilly is hosting a children’s story time this weekend — but the real story has been her life
I don't know how many kids will be in the audience when Jamie O'Reilly sits down at 2 p.m. Saturday at the Sweden Shop, a charming store on Foster Avenue...
More than 50 years ago, Michael Kutza created the film fest that still brings stars to Chicago. His new book is ‘Starstruck.’
Michael Kutza did not build any of the dozens of skyscrapers he can see from his apartment on the top floor of the downtown high rise in which he lives....
‘Jeffrey Dahmer Story’ on Netflix begs the question: Do we need 10 episodes of television about a serial killer?
"Dahmer: Monster: The Jeffrey Dahmer Story" offers viewers 10 hours of television featuring a serial killing cannibal and necrophiliac from Milwaukee. The popularity of this series is stunning and yet...
She played her own part in her husband’s baseball innovations: Mary Frances Veeck has died at 102
Marriage is difficult enough but, when your partner is a larger-than-life figure, that can pose certain problems. But Mary Frances Veeck, who was married for 36 years to that baseball...
Remembering Jim Post, the singer who found folk music in Old Town — and the night Pavarotti was in his audience
One of the notable encounters in Chicago's rich musical history took place one night decades ago when Luciano Pavarotti, in town to perform with the Lyric Opera, was convinced to...
Joe Winston captures the complex and charismatic Harold Washington in his film ‘Punch 9’
Everyone wants to be mayor, or so it seems, as the list of candidates and potential, I'm-still-thinking-about-it, contenders swells. Election Day for the mayor's race is Feb. 28, 2023. If...
Remembering Genevieve Buck, a Tribune fashion editor who was stylish in person and in print
Genevieve Buck entered the newspaper business when it was still a raucous, male-dominated world in which women were considered secondary. But over the next decades Buck would prove to be...