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Pacific white sided dolphins swim on May 5, 2016 at the Shedd Aquarium in Chicago.

Shedd Aquarium names animal response team to aid in rescue efforts

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

Shedd Aquarium is designating an animal response team within its staff in recognition of what it says is a growing need for rescuing and rehabilitating endangered animals.Shedd staffers typically travel...

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>

‘Show me another city with lifted head singing’: Sandburg’s ‘Chicago Poems’ becomes a folk album

December 17, 2018 at 5:31 p.m.

We have David Nagler's mother and her gift of poetry to thank for a new album that features Jeff Tweedy, Sally Timms, Robbie Fulks, Jon Langford, Daniel Knox and other...

Two men point to the speed controls on the SS Eastland after the ship was righted following the disaster in August 1915.

With Chicago 00, your smartphone becomes a window onto the Eastland disaster

March 1, 2020 at 10:47 p.m.

It is easy, these days, to think of the Chicago Riverwalk as a happy, fun place, a spot for party boats, wine bars and leisurely strolls along a walkway thick...

Blood and subjugation: 5 thoughts recapping ‘The Walking Dead’ Season 7, Episode 1

June 9, 2018 at 8:46 a.m.

So now we know the answer to what was the question of the summer for followers of "The Walking Dead": Who was going to die? When last we left Rick...

New ‘Rocky Horror’ really is a time warp, why it’s no match for original

June 9, 2018 at 8:46 a.m.

Talk about a time warp: As Thursday turned to Friday last night, as the clock in the metaphorical bell tower struck midnight, there I was watching the musical tale of...

Goodnight, democracy: The best late-night jokes about the final presidential debate

June 9, 2018 at 8:46 a.m.

The 2016 campaign saw its third and final presidential debate Wednesday night — "because two is not quite enough, and I think four would make us go cannibal," said Stephen...

1960 portraits of Algerian women by photographer Marc Garanger on display as the Field Museum unveiled its newest exhibition "Tattoo" Tuesday Oct. 18, 2016.

Think Ink: Field Museum puts its ‘Tattoo’ on full display

June 9, 2018 at 8:52 a.m.

Think ink. That's the message the Field Museum conveys with its new exhibition, a compendium of tattoo art, tattooed bodies and tattoo history titled, unsurprisingly, "Tattoo." But while the title...

Tattoo shop temporarily coming to Field Museum

June 9, 2018 at 9:39 a.m.

The Field Museum is getting a tattoo shop. The shop will be temporary, but the tattoos won't. To enhance its new traveling exhibition, "Tattoo," which opens Friday, visitors will be...

‘A Prairie Home Companion’ without Keillor remains a comfortable listen

December 17, 2018 at 5:32 p.m.

It is easier to find similarities between Chris Thile's version of "A Prairie Home Companion" and Garrison Keillor's than it is to find differences. Thile (rhymes with "feely") took over...

Six miles beneath the Pacific Ocean surface, a team of oceanographers and experts discover an entire hidden ecosystem laden with species "completely unknown to science." But Meg comes calling, attacking the submersible piloted by the ex-wife (Jessica McNamee) of rescue diver Jonas Taylor (Jason Statham).
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Tiny houses: Why we’re obsessed with the TV trend

May 20, 2019 at 8:18 a.m.

There comes a moment in every one of the approximately 27 shows currently running about so-called tiny houses when the person looking at such a potential home says this: "It's...

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