Shedd Aquarium bids adieu to its trained dogs. Yes, dogs.
The era of dogs at the Shedd Aquarium ended over the weekend, and with it ended the era of people being surprised to learn that the Shedd Aquarium has dogs....
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Best make up? Rick and Negan talk as ‘Walking Dead’ goes head to head with Oscars
Sunday's episode of "The Walking Dead" moved from burying Carl to repudiating his values. So I guess if you're looking for motion in a story, that's what you got. The...
Chinese bronzes exhibit at Art Institute brings ancient objects to American soil for the first time
“Indulging in things destroys the will,” a Chinese proverb says. That this is cited in the catalog to an exhibition of scores of ancient Chinese bronzeworks now on display at...
Chicago Humanities Festival gets ‘Graphic!’ with new year-long theme
The Chicago Humanities Festival for 2018 will make Graphic! its programming theme, the first time the arts organization has gone with a yearlong theme, CHF announced Monday. To kick it...
What’s that future and who’s that corpse? 5 thoughts on ‘The Walking Dead’s’ midseason premiere
‘The Walking Dead” is back after taking the holidays off, apparently so that we could all stock up on facial tissue. Sunday’s midseason premiere of Season 8 of the AMC...
Plan would turn Merchandise Mart into ‘largest canvas in the world’ for video and art
For decades, the Merchandise Mart has loomed over the bend in the Chicago River, its great limestone walls projecting stolidity and art deco style. This fall, the megabuilding’s front wall...
What you need to know as ‘Walking Dead’ returns to finish Season 8
"The Walking Dead," which seems to lurch on and off the TV schedule like a zombie itself, lurches back on this weekend with the first episode of the second half...
After Gov. Rauner’s chocolate milk incident, a handy guide to beverage politics
News item: At a public event in Chicago, Illinois Gov. Bruce Rauner, who is seeking re-election, drinks chocolate milk to show his embrace of diversity. A guide to American beverages...
Shedd Aquarium’s next big special exhibition to show life underwater shimmers with beauty
“Underwater Beauty” will be both the title and the ambition of Shedd Aquarium’s next big special exhibition, the aquarium announced Thursday. The exhibit, which will open May 25, will showcase...
Martin Luther King Jr. in Chicago: The story of a turning point
Considerations of the life of Martin Luther King Jr. will be increasingly in evidence as the nation approaches the April 4 50th anniversary of the assassination of the civil rights...