Shedd Aquarium beluga gives birth to healthy calf
Update: Shedd officials on July 16 announced they had determined the calf's sex: It's a boy. And it was still thriving, officials said. Mauyak, a 38-year-old beluga at Chicago's Shedd...
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Chicago’s ‘Cows on Parade’ is back for July, celebrating 20-year anniversary with one last roundup
Two decades ago, Chicago got caught up in cow fever — not bovine spongiform encephalopathy, but a benign form of art-cow madness. Craft-augmented cow statues in that summer of 1999...
Late-night TV confronts a tough question: Are Democratic candidates funny?
There are people out there for whom the Democrats' battle to pick a candidate to take on President Donald Trump in 2020 will never be funny. Those people are not...
Hold a giant cockroach (if you want) in new ‘Fantastic Bug Encounters!’ at the Field Museum
It has been more than two decades since the Field Museum presented a special exhibition specifically on bugs. It's not that the natural history institution is, like certain museum correspondents...
A Woodstock vest and a Trump Grammy dress: Rock and politics come together in ‘Louder Than Words’
Neil Young's handwritten lyrics to the rapidly drafted Kent State protest song "Ohio." A swanky velour shirt worn by Bob Marley in concert. Ronnie Van Zant's Lynyrd Skynyrd tour jacket....
Rhino Watch ’19: New baby rhinoceros a reluctant star at Lincoln Park Zoo
The new baby rhino at Lincoln Park Zoo, given the opportunity to make its outdoor debut Tuesday, did not exactly run to the spotlight. At 10:01 a.m., Curator of Mammals...
Second gorilla born at Lincoln Park Zoo in a month
A second baby gorilla has been born at Chicago's Lincoln Park Zoo, the institution announced this week. The June 12 birth of a baby of undetermined sex appears to be...
‘Manet and Modern Beauty’ now at the Art Institute suggests that you don’t know your Manet
Edouard Manet's late career works were dismissed for decades as mere confections, often dashed-off paintings of fruit and flowers and, especially, fashionable Parisian women, mere "feminized" shadows of his rigorous...
Virgil Abloh’s journey — from T-shirts to Kanye West to Louis Vuitton — now stops at the MCA for an exhibit devoted to the Rockford artist
"You're Obviously in the Wrong Place," reads a neon sign in Virgil Abloh's forthcoming exhibition at the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago. The lit-up yellow letters are a quote from...
U-505 submarine gets a makeover and new exhibit for 75th anniversary at MSI
Museum exhibitions that hang around long enough to wear the tag "venerable" can be problematic. How do you get people to visit something, say, a third time, to pay fresh...