Brookfield Zoo welcomes female polar bear
There's a new female polar bear at Brookfield Zoo, brought in with hopes she'll mate with Brookfield's male, the zoo announced Tuesday. Nan, who spent the past 16 years at...
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Orchid Show pumps exotic flowers into winter’s drabness
As much as our winter-chilled bodies might sense something wrong with the notion, there is a restorative power to seeing flowers amid frigidity. "It's alive," says Gabe Hutchison, a curator...
Rick returns: Recapping ‘The Walking Dead’ Season 7 Episode 9
For a while there Sunday night, things seemed right in the world inhabited by Rick Grimes and his band of occasionally merry, mostly morose skullstabbers. Oh, sure, there was still...
John Oliver’s back with a plan to enter President Trump’s info-stream
Being on hiatus for the past few months, John Oliver said while promoting Sunday night's first "Last Week Tonight" of the Donald Trump presidency, was like "being tied to a...
Pharrell and ComplexCon coming to MCA
Pharrell Williams will have a chance to make well-heeled Chicagoans happy this spring. The producer and performer will serve as musical curator at the Museum of Contemporary Art's ArtEdge: 50...
MCA opens retrospective on choreographer Merce Cunningham
On the wall leading into the Museum of Contemporary Art's forthcoming "Merce Cunningham: Common Time," there is a kind of name cloud depicting the choreographer's many collaborators during his long,...
Australian lungfish ‘Granddad,’ the oldest zoo animal in Chicago, dies
Granddad, the Shedd Aquarium Australian lungfish that was the oldest zoo animal in Chicago and the longest lived aquarium fish in the world, died Sunday, the aquarium announced Monday. The...
The best and worst Super Bowl commercials of 2017
As 2017's NFL championship played out on the field, the bigger-money game took place between the plays. Here is a look at the best, the worst and the just OK,...
Super Bowl commercials: Top five best and worst
Dozens of ads aired during the 2017 Super Bowl on Sunday and one of them even aired live, for the first time in the many years I've been reviewing the...
Controversy difficult to avoid for some Super Bowl ads
Suddenly, Budweiser's big annual Super Bowl storytelling ad seems political. Anheuser-Busch released its tale of co-founder Adolphus Busch coming to America — "I vant to brew beer" — just as...