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Lenny Bruce (aka Ronnie Marmo) didn’t expect to be here for a Chicago winter — but he’s loving it

February 10, 2020 at 1:56 p.m.

When Ronnie Marmo first set foot in Chicago last fall to portray Lenny Bruce in his one-man show, "I Am Not a Comedian ... I'm Lenny Bruce," he did not...

Deborah Lader, Bill Brickey, Al Ehich, composer Michael Miles and John Brennan at the Old Town School of Folk Music in Lincoln Square in 2019.

‘Folk music’ means more than ‘acoustic’ or ‘past,’ come to the 60th Folk Festival and find out

February 5, 2020 at 8:38 a.m.

When the University of Chicago's Folklore Society launched its first Folk Festival, the president of this student-run organization, a banjo-playing undergraduate majoring in anthropology named Mike Fleischer, said, "Mass entertainment...

Thanks to Stephen King’s ‘The Outsider’ and Netflix’s ‘Pandemic,’ our fears are as close as the closest TV

January 29, 2020 at 10:10 a.m.

There is so much to fear in this world and in this city. It is hard to escape. It was so much simpler when Franklin D. Roosevelt , delivering his...

The overturned Eastland ship in the Chicago River in 1915, photographed by Jun Fujita.

Column: Jun Fujita was a poet with words and a camera

January 22, 2020 at 4:22 p.m.

I first met Jun Fujita nearly two years ago and told you about him when he came back to life, so to speak, in a compelling segment for "Chicago Tonight"...

Dan Nelson, who will perform his one man show called "Night The Cubs Won" four Sunday night during Rhinofest, stands outside of Wrigley Field on a cold winter day.

Column: From burritos at Cubs games with his wife to a new one man play, baseball plays a huge role in Dan Nelson’s life

January 21, 2020 at 1:25 p.m.

One night in the dead of winter two writers were talking baseball. "Some of what you see on the field is beautiful and that is part of my love for...

A tale of two unforgettable Jims: James Shiflett of Body Politic and Jim Tuohy of Chicago journalism

January 16, 2020 at 12:00 a.m.

St. Clement Church, which sits unobtrusively in the Lincoln Park neighborhood, is not far from what was once a thriving storefront theater strip on Lincoln Avenue and so it was...

‘Good Time Party Girl’ is the story of Milwaukee saloon keeper Helen Cromwell — her legendary life and notorious mouth

January 13, 2020 at 12:00 a.m.

There are many things to admire and appreciate about Milwaukee. But as deservedly well-known as it is for its beer brewing traditions and Summerfest, the largest music festival in the...

Wood, plastic and lots of glass pieces, including bottle necks, are among the materials John Soss collects on Lake Michigan beaches and uses to make his photographs.

Maybe the debris found on the lakefront could be art — a Chicago photographer opens ‘On the Beach’

January 8, 2020 at 4:34 p.m.

A beach can be a lonely place, particularly in winter. John Soss wanders beaches in every season but does so less frequently when the cold comes, and the snow and...

The old Prentice Women's Hospital building located at 333 E. Superior St. in Chicago on Monday, March 25, 2013.

Who and what we lost in the 2010s: Tribune critics on the deaths and losses that shook them most

December 19, 2019 at 11:14 a.m.

The lists, which have already started appearing, will likely crush you as they initially crushed me, these lists of all the people and places that have disappeared over the past...

Les Begay, board president, and Heather Miller, executive director of the American Indian Center in the center's archives in Albany Park,.

Should we instead rename Chicago’s Lake Shore Drive for a woman named Kitihawa?

December 3, 2019 at 4:01 p.m.

In October when a member of the City Council, David Moore of the 17th Ward, proposed that Lake Shore Drive be renamed for Jean Baptiste Point du Sable, Heather Miller,...

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