Steve Johnson – Page 61

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>

Tied up in knots: 5 thoughts recapping ‘The Walking Dead’ Season 7 Episode 14

June 5, 2018 at 1:11 p.m.

Let's all learn how to tie some new knots along with Sasha! Because the producers of "The Walking Dead," who served up an episode Sunday packed with long conversations and...

Chicago outsider museum celebrates janitor-turned-artist Henry Darger

December 17, 2018 at 5:12 p.m.

The world of Henry Darger, the solitary Chicago janitor who became an icon of outsider art after his death, is already a deep and many-chambered rabbit hole. Chicago's Intuit: The...

A hello to arms: 5 thoughts recapping ‘The Walking Dead’ Season 7, Episode 13

June 5, 2018 at 3:11 p.m.

So much trouble over a cantaloupe. Sunday's "The Walking Dead" — spoiler alert — offered up what might someday be told as the parable of how the Kingdom joined the...

Exhibit on Japanese-American internment coming to new Lincoln Park gallery

June 5, 2018 at 3:52 p.m.

A second exhibition, a look at Japanese-American internment during World War II, will be coming to the recently developed Alphawood Gallery in June, gallery officials announced Thursday. The Alphawood Foundation...

Lincoln Park Zoo welcomes female polar bear

June 5, 2018 at 3:51 p.m.

And then there were four. Lincoln Park Zoo now has a female polar bear on premises, too, meaning that there are now potential breeding pairs of the vulnerable species at...

Field Museum shows off its backstage treasures in ‘Specimens’ exhibition

December 17, 2018 at 5:13 p.m.

On one level, Sue the T. rex is one of the most famous and significant dinosaur skeletons in the world. On another, the menacing-looking denizen of the north end of...

Romance amid the ruins: 5 thoughts recapping ‘The Walking Dead’ Season 7 Episode 12

June 5, 2018 at 5:26 p.m.

What a fun place America is after the apocalypse. You go out on shopping runs, you giggle a lot in the van as you rediscover what made you fall for...

She’s ba-aack: ‘Whistler’s Mother,’ a more exciting painting than you might think, returns to Art Institute

December 17, 2018 at 5:14 p.m.

The first time "Whistler's Mother" came to Chicago, it was a sensation. It was the "Most Talked of Canvas" in the exhibition of celebrated works the Art Institute showed in...

Field Museum’s wee-but-mighty meteorites in new display

June 5, 2018 at 6:23 p.m.

In the vastness of the Field Museum, the new meteorite display is just a little corner of cases and video screens tucked on a back wall of the second floor,...

Are ads on the Oscars better than the Super Bowl’s?

April 5, 2019 at 6:05 a.m.

"We have to show a commercial for shampoo or something now," host Jimmy Kimmel said at one point during Sunday's Academy Awards. That line wasn't written on a card tucked...

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