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Pioneering advertising man Lowell Thompson, the subject of a new film, titled "Channels Changers" on Aug. 8, 2022.

Lowell Thompson’s movie ‘Channels Changers’ shows how Black Chicagoans changed the ad game in the ‘Mad Men’ era

August 9, 2022 at 5:00 a.m.

Someone, I've long thought, should make a movie of Lowell Thompson's life and finally that is happening. A painter/writer/former ad man/legendary storyteller, Thompson is making the movie himself, collaborating with...

Robert Duvall (as Augustus 'Gus' McCrae) and Rick Schroder (as Newt Dobbs) lean on a fence in a scene from the television miniseries "Lonesome Dove" in 1989.

Return with us now to those thrilling days of yesteryear, via the majesty of the Western miniseries ‘Lonesome Dove’

August 3, 2022 at 9:30 a.m.

Like many now gray-haired men of my generation, and a few women too, I wanted to be a cowboy. TV made me that way, starting with such early shoot-'em-up characters...

Statue marking the grave marked Inez Clarke 1873-1880.

The dead keep telling tales and the new book ‘Graceland Cemetery’ is alive with hundreds of them

August 2, 2022 at 5:00 a.m.

The dead do tell tales. The trick is to listen and when you do, you will learn that the great architect Louis Sullivan's "grave was initially unmarked (when he died...

Pop artist Claes Oldenburg watches as his sculpture "Paint Torch" is installed by the George Young Company at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts in Philadelphia on Aug. 20, 2011.

Claes Oldenburg, who made art of massive size and style, spent his formative years in Chicago

July 27, 2022 at 5:30 a.m.

Not everyone liked the things that artist Claes Oldenburg made, which were gigantic sculptures of such commonplace items as a hamburger, a lipstick case, clothespin, ice cream cone, pretzel, ironing...

An exterior view Aug. 28, 2018 shows the Newberry Library.

It’s a new look and some new things at the Newberry Book Fair coming back this weekend

July 26, 2022 at 5:00 a.m.

For a time I was the "Mayor of Bughouse Square" and last weekend that place, which is the oldest park in the city, was filled with people and dogs. That...

Will there be a new face in City Council and what would his famous father, Mike Royko, think of it all?

July 20, 2022 at 3:17 p.m.

There are ghosts aplenty in the Billy Goat Tavern, that subterranean saloon, and none more notable than that of bygone columnist Mike Royko. One late afternoon last week Mike's son,...

Field Notes creator Jim Coudal with the latest Field Notes featuring the Great Lakes, at the Field Notes office in Chicago, Monday, July 11, 2022. (Antonio Perez/ baiduhai)

As this fast-paced planet spins, let us tell you about the simple pleasures and utility of Chicago-made Field Notes

July 15, 2022 at 5:00 a.m.

Jim Coudal was very happy as an ad man, his Coudal Partners advertising agency working with such high profile clients as Lettuce Entertain You, the Blackhawks, White Sox ("Good Guys...

From the new book "The Doomsday Clock at 75" by Robert K. Elder and J.C. Gabel.

‘The Doomsday Clock at 75’ explores how the Chicago-born cultural icon keeps tick, tick, ticking away

July 7, 2022 at 9:40 a.m.

The Doomsday Clock was born in 1947 in Chicago, a Cold War baby delivered as the illustration for the first cover of a new magazine, the Bulletin of the Atomic...

Burt Lancaster in a famous kiss with Deborah Kerr in the 1953 Columbia Pictures film "From Here To Eternity."

Before stardom came, Burt Lancaster sold lingerie and suits at Marshall Field’s in Chicago

July 5, 2022 at 5:00 a.m.

I ran into Burt Lancaster last week. I was walking through Macy's in the Loop, which used to be the home of Marshall Field & Company and where long ago...

Elvis Presley and Col. Tom Parker step off the train in Memphis, Tennessee, in 1960 following Presley's discharge from the Army.

From someone who knew him — my brother Mark Kogan — a look at the real Colonel Tom Parker and Elvis Presley

June 29, 2022 at 5:00 a.m.

It was a little after 2 a.m. when the phone began to ring in my brother Mark Kogan's Las Vegas hotel room and that hour rarely brings good news. It...

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