Sue the T. rex gets her arm back
Sue the T. rex is intact again, and scientists suspect they know a little more about how the animal functioned. Those little "arms"? Little used.The right forelimb of the Field...
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Bryan Cranston takes center stage at Ideas Week
Bearing the superb title "A Life in Parts," Bryan Cranston's new autobiography is "genial, occasionally funny and largely devoid of gossip," according to one review, and that's how Cranston is...
For Bob Dylan, the Nobel Prize goes pop
In something of an upset, Bob Dylan was named Thursday as the winner of the Nobel Prize for literature, the first to come from popular music. The literature prize has...
Anger management: The best late-night jokes about the second presidential debate
The humor that worked best about Sunday's second debate of the 2016 presidential campaign and about the revelations that preceded it was a humor of anger, even of astonishment. Why,...
Sue the T. rex is giving her arm for science — temporarily
Being the world's "most complete" T. rex is one of the claims to fame of the Field Museum's apex fossil Sue. Thursday morning, Sue became a little less complete. With...
Art Institute digs deep into Moholy
The merits of the major retrospective examining Laszlo Moholy-Nagy at the Art Institute of Chicago are many. It brings together prime examples from the astonishing range of work created by...
‘Above and Beyond’ at MSI will let you fly — kind of
In "Above and Beyond," the new exhibit at the Museum of Science and Industry about humanity's urge to defy gravity, visitors can fly like an eagle — or maybe it's...
Penguins making a comeback at Lincoln Park Zoo
Penguins are back on the North Side. Five years after they were rousted from their home at Lincoln Park Zoo to make way for new exhibits, the popular flightless birds...
Art that moves — 32,400 pounds of concrete-clad Caddy
It is mid-June on the West Side of Chicago, and a dozen or so people are standing around what looks an awful lot like an automobile encased in concrete. Pockmarked...
Lockport the latest to reopen in Illinois State Museum revival effort
Little by little, after nearly a year of closure forced by the state's budget crisis, the Illinois State Museum system is reopening. The ISM's Lockport Gallery, an art hall in...