Steve Johnson – Page 50

Nick Cave has been singing about mortality for decades, and he's really good at it. Whether the narratives are biblical or pulpy, the victims innocents or death row convicts, the circumstances comprehensible or cruelly random, Cave's songs are on intimate terms with the infinite ways a life can be extinguished. And yet, "Skeleton Tree", his latest album with his estimable band, the Bad Seeds, is a relatively concise song cycle shadowed by death that feels different than all the rest. <a href="http://www.chicagotribune.com/entertainment/music/kot/sc-music-nick-cave-skeleton-tree-ent-0916-20160916-column.html" target="_blank">Read the full review.</a>

Best museum shows of 2017: Japanese pop, Gauguin and ancient artifacts top the list

December 17, 2018 at 7:31 p.m.

In a slow year, the Chicago museum scene is dynamic, intellectually invigorating and the source of endless potential hours of fact-based entertainment. 2017 was not a slow year. Innovation and...

Sherrie Westin from Sesame Workshop and the International Rescue Committee meets Tonton the Jordanian Muppet, voiced by Deena Al Saleh, during part of the presentation that won the MacArthur Foundation $100 million challenge.

Sesame Workshop child refugee plan wins first MacArthur $100M challenge

December 17, 2018 at 7:15 p.m.

In the end, the Muppet may well have been the secret weapon. A proposal by Sesame Workshop and the International Rescue Committee to educate Middle Eastern refugee children is the...

Kerry James Marshall adds some details to the Willis Tower on his mural./ Artist Kerry James Marshall adds some details Saturday Dec. 2, 2017 to the giant mural he has created for the west side of the Chicago Cultural Center.

Meet the 20 trailblazing women in Kerry James Marshall’s massive new mural

August 22, 2019 at 1:58 a.m.

The following are the 20 women depicted in Kerry James Marshall's "RUSH MORE" mural on the west wall of the Chicago Cultural Center, at Michigan Avenue and Washington Street. The...

A real reality show: MacArthur grant competitors vie onstage for $100 million prize

December 17, 2018 at 6:37 p.m.

Some key differences between “Shark Tank,” the hit reality show airing on ABC, and 100&Change, the first-of-its-kind MacArthur Foundation grant competition that saw its version of a final four present...

5 thoughts on the midseason finale of ‘The Walking Dead’: It’s Carl’s show

June 4, 2019 at 11:49 p.m.

So at the end of Sunday’s midseason finale of “The Walking Dead,” there are lots of things we still don’t know, but there is one very big thing that we...

National Museum of Gospel Music planned for Bronzeville site

December 17, 2018 at 5:31 p.m.

If planners get their way, Chicago will have the nation’s first major gospel music museum, on the site once occupied by Pilgrim Baptist Church, known as the birthplace of gospel....

Stolen jokes, stolen songs: 2 artists on what happens when works-in-progress are lost to thieves

December 17, 2018 at 5:19 p.m.

Beyond being touring performers on the rise, Beth Stelling and Amanda Shires don’t have a lot in common. Stelling, who plays Thalia Hall at 8 p.m. Thursday (thaliahallchicago.com), grew up...

WTTW takes viewers to the Chicago River in new special

December 17, 2018 at 5:09 p.m.

The go-to recommendation for new visitors to the city — take a Chicago River tour — is now a television special. For more than 90 minutes on Thursday, viewers can...

‘The Walking Dead’: Episode 7 keeps on trucking before the midseason finale

December 17, 2018 at 4:48 p.m.

The theme of Sunday’s “Walking Dead” episode was — spoiler alert — abandonment. Rosita and Michonne abandoned Daryl, but not before Michonne almost abandoned Rick. Daryl did abandon Rick, or...

Kerry James Marshall sits across the street from his mural "RUSH MORE" to see what he still needs to tweak on Saturday before Monday's unveiling.

Who’s who in Kerry James Marshall’s ‘RUSH MORE’

December 17, 2018 at 4:45 p.m.

These are the women honored in Kerry James Marshall’s “RUSH MORE” mural on the west wall of the Chicago Cultural Center. They are listed in the order they appear in...

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