Steve Johnson – Page 68

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>

Lincoln Park Zoo’s latest polar bear frolics in new exhibit space

December 17, 2018 at 5:29 p.m.

The newest Chicago bear wasted no time Thursday in showing off his skills. Siku, an almost 7-year-old male polar bear most recently with Louisville, won't help the city's struggling NFL...

Just the jokes: Late-night comedy responds to the Trump election

June 9, 2018 at 3:30 a.m.

No commentary. No analysis. In the interest of moving beyond this historic presidential election — and maybe testing whether we are yet again capable of the laugh response — here...

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Live on election night, Colbert tries for comedy, grapples with truth

August 6, 2019 at 10:50 p.m.

There were a lot of extraordinary sights Tuesday night in America. One of them was seeing Stephen Colbert trying to go through with a live comedy show as it became...

Steeple of Greenstone United Methodist Church, right, in Chicago's Pullman neighborhood on Aug. 31, 2021.

Planning an ambitious future for Pullman

December 17, 2018 at 5:29 p.m.

Possibly in 2018, the Chicago Humanities Festival session on the past, present and future of the freshly minted Pullman National Monument could actually happen in a Pullman Historic District structure....

No Easy Street: 5 thoughts recapping ‘The Walking Dead’ Season 7 Episode 3

June 4, 2019 at 11:42 p.m.

It's easy to get exasperated with "The Walking Dead." The story lurches along, toward no apparent goal beyond survival. The army of zombie undead remains surprisingly menacing to humans despite...

Cubs fans get Museum Campus discounts Friday

December 17, 2018 at 5:29 p.m.

Go, Cubs fans, go -- to a museum or two while you're downtown. That's the hope of at least two cultural institutions taking advantage of the massive influx of people...

How the Cubs informed Bob Newhart’s philosophy on life

December 17, 2018 at 5:30 p.m.

Lest you doubt Bob Newhart's blue Chicago blood, there he was on Twitter, during the National League Division Series against the Giants, tweeting after the Cubs improbable 4-run 9th-inning comeback,...

Lunch cobbler and a tiger too: 5 thoughts on ‘The Walking Dead’ Season 7, Episode 2

August 24, 2019 at 11:43 p.m.

In true "Walking Dead" fashion, after the brutality and significant body count of last week's first episode of the 7th season, the producers sent us off this week in another...

Why ‘Will & Grace’ is ripe for a comeback

June 9, 2018 at 6:27 a.m.

Put me in the cheering section for a return of "Will & Grace," the groundbreaking late 1990s sitcom about the close friendship of a straight woman (Debra Messing) and a...

Talking to Ben Rivers about art film ‘Urth’ and how it’s finding an audience

December 17, 2018 at 5:30 p.m.

With its current show, "Ben Rivers: Urth," the Renaissance Society showcases three works by the British filmmaker that are, in a sense, about isolation. Yet the show, the first North...

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