Rick Kogan

Béa and Steve Rashid (from left), their son Daniel (on screen) and son Robert sit around the piano at Studio 5 in Evanston on March 9. They are all involved in a livestreaming show titled "Into the Mist" that takes people back to 1927 to visit gamblers, drinkers, flappers, musicians and other interesting types.

What lurks in ‘Into the Mist’? Flappers, blackjack dealers and so much more from Roaring ’20s

March 10, 2021 at 8:16 a.m.

Last Friday night, and the past came calling at 9 p.m. More accurately I called the past, by logging into a website that allowed me to travel to 1927, and...

After a lifetime of powerful words, ‘Mango Street’ author Sandra Cisneros gets an honor from Chicago’s Literary Hall of Fame

March 9, 2021 at 7:50 a.m.

"That novel opened a window to Chicago's Mexican-American culture and, more widely, to the situation of immigrants in our nation," says Randy Albers, long a force on the city's literary...

After more than a decade, Kevin Coval is out as artistic director for Young Chicago Authors, following controversy.

Column: Kevin Coval out at Young Chicago Authors, following controversy over handling of sex assault allegations

March 7, 2021 at 8:40 a.m.

Few look to poetry for the sort of fireworks that erupted days ago when the fate of the estimable organization Young Chicago Authors and its longtime leader went up for...

Comedian Mort Sahl at Mister Kelly's in 1972.

Remember Mister Kelly’s? Boxes of stuff from Chicago’s great, bygone nightspot have just landed at the Newberry Library

March 3, 2021 at 12:53 p.m.

There is, inside the cleanly chiseled granite walls of the Newberry Library, a historical wonderland. In this stately building at 60 W. Walton St., you will find thousands, perhaps millions,...

Chicago blues master Corky Siegel is feeling good and ready to jam with you — even if that’s via livestream

March 2, 2021 at 7:15 a.m.

Corky Siegel feels fine. "Terrific on all counts," he says. "Just terrific." That is good to hear and it is always good to talk to Siegel, a Chicago treasure and...

Jamyle Cannon joins other volunteers for My Block, My Hood, My City to clear snow from sidewalks in the 6400 block of South Vernon Avenue on Jan. 26, 2021.

‘Ripple of Hope’ documentary is about Chicago activist Jahmal Cole, a father, neighborhood organizer and now political hopeful

February 22, 2021 at 1:21 p.m.

Before the pandemic began to take its terrible toll and before the city erupted in spasms of protest and other assorted turmoil, Jahmal Cole had been doing his best to...

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What lurks in ‘Into the Mist’? Flappers, blackjack dealers and so much more from Roaring ’20s

After a lifetime of powerful words, ‘Mango Street’ author Sandra Cisneros gets an honor from Chicago’s Literary Hall of Fame

Column: Kevin Coval out at Young Chicago Authors, following controversy over handling of sex assault allegations

Remember Mister Kelly’s? Boxes of stuff from Chicago’s great, bygone nightspot have just landed at the Newberry Library

Chicago blues master Corky Siegel is feeling good and ready to jam with you — even if that’s via livestream

‘Ripple of Hope’ documentary is about Chicago activist Jahmal Cole, a father, neighborhood organizer and now political hopeful

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After a lifetime of literature, Greek American writer Harry Mark Petrakis is dead at 97

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