Steve Johnson – Page 62

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>

Up in the ratings and live after Trump’s speech, Stephen Colbert parades a new confidence

June 5, 2018 at 6:47 p.m.

It's worth remembering that just a few months ago, informed sources had Stephen Colbert being just another so-so ratings week away from surrendering his time slot to later-night host James...

At home with the Saviors: Recapping ‘The Walking Dead’ Season 7 Episode 11

June 5, 2018 at 7:46 p.m.

Instead of taking a week off while the Oscars aired on another channel, "The Walking Dead" went ahead and showed a new episode Sunday. So it was power vs. power,...

Adler Planetarium boosts domed theater image quality with new projectors

June 5, 2019 at 5:13 p.m.

For many home theater owners, the recent Super Bowl and Sunday's Oscars were all the incentive they needed to do a video upgrade. For the Adler Planetarium, the timing of...

‘Operation Finale’ a Holocaust Museum smash

December 17, 2018 at 5:15 p.m.

It isn't every day that a museum exhibit plays out more like the plot of a spy novel -- and in addition has major historical significance. But that's the considerable...

President Barack Obama and first lady Michelle join the Bonner family, including 99-year-old Ruth Odom Bonner, as she rings the freedom bell from the Williamsburg first baptist church founded in 1776. It was to commemorate the opening of the new National Museum of African American History and Culture on Saturday.

Firm that shaped national African-American museum hired for Obama museum

May 23, 2019 at 3:11 a.m.

The New York firm that helped shape the recently opened National Museum of African American History and Culture will lead the exhibition design for the Obama Presidential Center's museum on...

New American Writers Museum shows off its Michigan Avenue space

June 5, 2018 at 8:55 p.m.

With an opening date set for May 16, the nascent American Writers Museum held its first press conference Tuesday in the space it'll occupy, the second floor of a vintage...

Ultimate zombie time: 5 thoughts recapping ‘The Walking Dead’ Season 7, episode 10

June 5, 2018 at 9:25 p.m.

Now there is a task to be completed and a potentially big reward for doing so, a way forward through the brutality, the hopelessness, the blood smears everywhere you turn....

Late night comics react to Trump’s ‘crazy’ Thursday press conference

June 4, 2019 at 11:44 p.m.

For all the talk of division in the land, Donald Trump, it turns out, is bringing the country together, or at least the portion of it that is employed in...

Major Rolling Stones exhibition coming to Navy Pier in April

June 5, 2018 at 10:27 p.m.

It's only rock 'n' roll, but they're enshrining it. "Exhibitionism," a show displaying hundreds of Rolling Stones artifacts from the group's 50-plus-year career, will go up in Navy Pier's Festival...

A grown-up Christopher Robin returns to the Hundred Acre Wood and his best friend Winnie the Pooh.
<a href="http://www.chicagotribune.com/entertainment/movies/sc-mov-christopher-robin-rev-0802-story.html" target="_blank">Read the review.</a>

MacArthur names 8 semifinalists for $100 million grant

June 5, 2018 at 10:50 p.m.

The eight semifinalists in the MacArthur Foundation's $100 million grant challenge want to educate refugee children, provide virtual access to medical specialists and deliver digital access to millions more books....

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