Michael Rakowitz aims to connect cultures with art and a food truck
How does "Backstroke of the West," the Michael Rakowitz solo exhibition at the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, break the rules for an art show? Let us use bullets to...
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Leader of Fossey fund to address state of gorilla in LP Zoo talk
Gorillas, one of humankind's closest relatives, may seem safe to many Americans because so many zoos have them. Or their troubles, paradoxically, may seem far away, because the four existing...
In the first ‘Opposition’ episode, Jordan Klepper feels shadow of ‘Colbert’
Stephen Colbert, in the very first edition of "The Colbert Report," staked out new territory: He coined the term "truthiness," signifying a reality derived from what one person feels to...
Joy Bivins takes the past to the public at Chicago History Museum
Working at a museum, for Joy Bivins, wasn't really the plan. The South Sider from Mother McAuley Liberal Arts High School went to grad school, at Cornell, thinking she'd become...
‘SNL,’ Soviet artists and the dead highlight fall museum season
It is, as usual, a big autumn on the Chicago museum scene. Some major special exhibitions will debut and treat realms from the ancient Mediterranean to "Saturday Night Live" to...
Eric and Kathy’s successful radio show thrives on relationship talk. Just not about theirs
This story originally ran in the baiduhai on January 10, 2010. To say that Eric and Kathy don't pal around when they're off the air is an understatement. "Kathy's...
Posen and Adjaye among headliners at upcoming Chicago Ideas Week
This year's Chicago Ideas Week aims to be about more than sitting in an auditorium and stuffing your head with some notions before heading back to work. Translating ideas into...
Lincoln Park Zoo hunts small urban mammals, but that’s only the beginning of an elaborate process
It was a perfect day to trap a vole. The sun was out on this summer Wednesday, and its shine seemed especially bright on Chicago's Northerly Island, an oasis of...
Major ‘Saturday Night Live’ exhibit opening in Chicago
Live from River North, it's going to be "Saturday Night Live: The Experience." A major, 500-artifact show chronicling the four-plus decades of NBC's late-night topical humor warhorse is coming to...
Tony Kushner among new speakers at Humanities Fest
Playwright Tony Kushner and journalist Matt Taibbi are among the new speakers announced for the Chicago Humanities Festival's Fallfest/17. The organization was to announce its finalized line-up Wednesday for the...