Ease up, Grammys: No need to force the TV-music magic
Last night was the Grammys, also known as The Show Determined to Make You Never Want to Hear One Note of "Stay With Me " Ever Again. And that was...
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Ditch red light cameras, quench thirst for revenue with Bud Light cameras
I've got three words that can help reshape city finance and remove some municipal annoyances as well: Bud Light cameras. Thanks to Tribune investigations, everybody knows by now that Chicago's...
Rare Shedd dolphin is pregnant; baby expected in June
A Pacific white-sided dolphin at the Shedd Aquarium is pregnant and expected to give birth in early June, the aquarium announced Wednesday. The news puts a spotlight on the little-studied...
Mitchell Museum of the American Indian puts on native fashion show
The Mitchell Museum of the American Indian is saying yes not only to the dress, in a vibrant new exhibition of Indian fashion, but also to the vest, specifically an...
Grading the 2015 Super Bowl ads
On the field it was the Super Bowl. In the ads, it was the Sincerity Bowl. Influenced by recent advertiser successes with lost puppies, gritty American farmers and a troubled...
Museums reflect on lower attendance in 2014
If you've ever tried to go to, say, Shedd Aquarium or the Museum of Science and Industry on the Sunday of a school vacation week, you'll agree that fewer museum...
Meet the latest cold-weather jargon: the ‘wintery mix’
When did weather situations start getting named like chocolate assortments or craft-beer 12-packs? "Wintry mix," it seems, is the latest addition to our lexicon for describing atmospheric conditions. It refers...
Attendance dips at major Chicago museums in 2014
Attendance at a consortium of 15 leading Chicago cultural institutions was down slightly in 2014, in large measure due to the "polar vortex" weather that began the year, but blockbuster...
Crowdfunding and Amazon gifts: Adler and Shedd try new fundraising ideas
It beats mailing out another membership solicitation, apparently. Two Chicago cultural institutions are turning to web culture to try to raise money, innovative responses to the eternal challenge such not-for-profit...
Hey, hey, it’s the snow monkeys at Lincoln Park Zoo
Enter, snow monkeys. With a walkie-talkie call from curator of primates Maureen Leahy Wednesday, an assistant in the holding areas beneath Lincoln Park Zoo's new Regenstein Macaque Forest exhibit opened...