40 institutions to team for Art Design Chicago
A new, yearlong citywide arts festival will celebrate Chicago's heritage as a maker and shaper of materials. Art Design Chicago, to run throughout next year, will bring together 25 exhibitions...
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Five things ‘The Walking Dead’ needs to do to keep us watching
Another "Walking Dead" season is in the books. A few key characters moved on to, let's say, a better place during the show's seventh year. Some new ones were introduced....
Let the bullets fly: 5 thoughts recapping ‘The Walking Dead’ Season 7 finale
So now all the ammunition is gone, and next season will be mostly about finding bullets. That's what I'm guessing, anyway, based on the — spoiler alert — massive firefight...
Son Volt’s Jay Farrar making peace and music with the past
The story of Son Volt's new album, which the band will feature in a sold-out Thalia Hall show Saturday, is the story, more or less, of the aged amplifier memorialized...
Climate change on exhibit at two Chicago museums
At a museum on the South Side of Chicago, newly mounted photographs and video detail the disappearance, due to rising temperatures, of glaciers that are hundreds of years old. It's...
Chicago Blues Experience announces plan for Loop museum
The Chicago Blues Experience, a proposed 50,000-square-foot museum that had been hoping for a sweet home on Navy Pier, will instead be setting up shop in the Loop. Aiming for...
No guns on the beach: 5 thoughts recapping ‘The Walking Dead’ Season 7 Episode 15
A number of important questions were answered in Sunday's "The Walking Dead," the second-to-last episode of a season whose pacing has seemingly been inspired by the middle word in the...
Blockbuster ‘Jurassic World’ exhibition will bring dinosaur park to Field Museum
"Jurassic World: The Exhibition," a dinosaur theme-park experience derived from the blockbuster film franchise, is coming to the Field Museum's front lawn this spring, the Tribune has learned. The exhibition...
Lincoln Park Zoo — new look, new global mission
Lincoln Park Zoo's pioneering Urban Wildlife Institute, which has counted coyotes in the city and flying squirrels in the suburbs, is going national, part of a passel of changes at...
New medieval galleries bring knights’ gear back to Art Institute to ‘Game of Thrones’ fans’ delight
In certain contexts, "going medieval" can signify something shockingly violent. The Art Institute is going medieval these days, and there the phrase carries a fuller meaning: beauty, opulence, religious devotion...