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Alec Baldwin attends a special screening of his film "Still Alice" in New York. Baldwin will be back as the guest host on "Saturday Night Live" for the 17th time on Feb. 11. (Photo by Evan Agostini/Invision/AP, File)

Alec Baldwin heads Chicago Ideas Week’s spring series

With events including an interview of Alec Baldwin, "Saturday Night's Live's" designated impersonator of President Trump, Chicago Ideas has announced its new slate of spring programming. Called the Curiosity Series,...
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>

Chicago museums set attendance records in 2016

Adler Planetarium set a paid-era attendance record for the second straight year in 2016, and the Field Museum and Art Institute both rode blockbuster exhibits to double-digit growth in attendance....
Nike Whitcomb, former Executive Director of the American Writers Museum sits in front of a projection of a planned exhibit space in the new museum. The American Writers Museum is coming to Chicago in a 2nd floor space at 180 N. Michigan Avenue.

Writers museum in Chicago sets opening date

The American Writers Museum, a long-gestating new Chicago institution, has set an opening date of May 16, the museum announced Tuesday. Located at 180 N. Michigan Ave., the museum will...
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>

One museum tour, with extra sex and violence

It is a crowded Thursday night at the Art Institute of Chicago. One tour group after another strolls through the impressionism and post-impressionism galleries, hopping from Monet to Manet and...