So how did Tom Hanks do as guest host of NPR’s ‘Wait, Wait’ show?
What's it like when a major motion picture star surprises everyone by deciding to serve as guest host of a public radio comedy news quiz? Two primary answers came Thursday...
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The Lucas Museum has landed in LA, no waterfront in sight
So George Lucas' itinerant spaceship of a museum is finally landing — in Los Angeles, where the film-drenched future institution probably belonged all along. After a 10-year search that included...
Lester Holt on Obama, Valois and that Cook County jury video
About a half-hour before his farewell address at McCormick Place Tuesday night, President Barack Obama was seated at an old haunt, the Valois restaurant in Hyde Park, talking for 40...
Chris Thile still settling into ‘A Prairie Home Companion’
It's been a few months now since mandolinist Chris Thile stepped into the very big radio shoes of Garrison Keillor, the founding host of public radio's "A Prairie Home Companion."...
An easier ‘Hamilton’ ticket: Newberry Library’s documents exhibit
The Newberry Library had a special opportunity — a shot, as it were — and it was not going to miss it. With a certain musical confection about Alexander Hamilton...
Sheryl Sandberg heads Chicago Humanities’ Springfest lineup
A talk by Facebook Chief Operating Officer Sheryl Sandberg heads a lineup of more than 20 events at the Chicago Humanities Festival's second annual Springfest, the organization announced Monday. The...
Chance the Rapper joins DuSable Museum board
Chance the Rapper will have an opportunity to make history in a different way. The 23-year-old South Side hip-hop star is one of a new crop of board members at...
Art, armor and eclipses: Winter museums preview
Pretty pictures, delicate flowers and specialties from the specimen drawers are among the offerings from Chicago's museums in winter and early spring. It's also a time of frequent free days...
New Brookfield Zoo baby orangutan is important, and adorable
Around the new baby orangutan Tuesday morning, 8-year-old sister Kekasih leaned off the edge of the family group's nest, holding a banana leaf. Three-year-old stepbrother Kecil dangled from an overhead...
Gloria Groom a new master of French painting
"Gloria Groom, the Art Institute's ... newly appointed chair of European Painting and Sculpture, has a busy 2016 planned," an in-house publication at the museum wrote at the end of...