Steve Johnson – Page 55

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>

Nancy Pelosi tours Chicago exhibit on Japanese-American internment

May 23, 2019 at 11:26 a.m.

Twice, there have been exhibition's in Chicago's new Alphawood Gallery space, and twice U.S. House Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi has visited. The latest came Thursday, when the veteran San Francisco-area...

Move over, Sue: World’s largest dinosaur taking center stage at Field Museum

June 2, 2018 at 10:34 p.m.

Visitors to the Field Museum early next year will be in for a shock: For the first time in almost two decades, Sue, the museum's star attraction and the largest,...

Six miles beneath the Pacific Ocean surface, a team of oceanographers and experts discover an entire hidden ecosystem laden with species "completely unknown to science." But Meg comes calling, attacking the submersible piloted by the ex-wife (Jessica McNamee) of rescue diver Jonas Taylor (Jason Statham).
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Night of the living plot explosions: 5 thoughts on the stunning season finale of ‘Game of Thrones’

June 2, 2018 at 8:02 p.m.

Well, that was something. And it was also something else — and then some. The seventh season of "Game of Thrones" on Sunday went out with a bang, a whimper,...

First Division Museum, reopening Saturday, tells the story of war with aplomb

June 2, 2018 at 9:36 p.m.

If you were planning an attack on the First Division Museum, your most prudent approach would be from the rear. Out front, 11 tanks of many eras stand on a...

‘Game of Thrones’: 5 thoughts on penultimate episode of Season 7

April 5, 2019 at 6:08 a.m.

If "Game of Thrones" were a person, instead of a television series, we'd be looking right now for the tell-tale signs of addiction. Is there a little powder around the...

What was it like the last time a solar eclipse hit Chicago? Streetlights turned on, and so did people’s moods

April 1, 2024 at 6:14 p.m.

This story originally ran in the Tribune on May 11, 1994. We are reprinting it in hopes of giving readers a taste of what to expect on Monday, Aug. 21....

Anthony Scaramucci met Stephen Colbert on Monday, and it was mostly awkward

June 2, 2018 at 11:43 p.m.

In his short time in the Trump administration, Anthony Scaramucci became one of the great comic characters in the repertoire of late-night TV. His Long Island roots, his line about...

Ta-Nehisi Coates, Jill Soloway to headline Chicago Humanities Festival events

May 23, 2019 at 11:26 a.m.

Speakers including Ta-Nehisi Coates, Jill Soloway and Edward O. Wilson will headline events at the fall's Chicago Humanities Festival, the organization announced Monday. Additionally, novelist Marilynne Robinson ("Housekeeping") will accept...

Snow blind? 5 thoughts on ‘Game of Thrones’ Episode 5

December 17, 2018 at 4:53 p.m.

If you didn't know "Game of Thrones," if you hadn't been watching from when it all started seven seasons ago, you might think not much happened in Sunday's episode: Some...

Bran’s ultimate use on ‘Game of Thrones’: Isaac Hempstead Wright talks theories

May 23, 2019 at 11:26 a.m.

Quoth the Raven: "I really think the Jon Snow thing is such a red herring in the same way the Iron Throne is perhaps the greatest red herring in TV...

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