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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>

National Public Housing Museum officially has its home

The National Public Housing Museum now officially has its home, after a Chicago Housing Authority board approved a long-term, $1-per-year lease agreement for the non-profit in the CHA property it...
"Orange Is the New Black" star Laverne Cox.

2016 Emmys prove diversity can pay off

The 2016 Emmy Awards didn't but probably should have inspired the Twitter hashtag #emmyssorainbow, and afterward one question jumped to mind: Would the primary TV awards be quite so heralded...
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 Ideas Week tickets on sale Monday

Presenters at 2016's Chicago Ideas Week range from an astronomer to a soccer superstar to a hot-tempered Hollywood agent who happens to be related to Chicago's mayor, but one thing...
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>

Museum goodness abounds this fall. Here is a Top 10

Chicago museums have a tough act to follow this fall, after a blockbuster spring featuring shows on Van Gogh, "Downton Abbey," massive Lego sculptures, Terracotta Warriors, Johnny Carson and contemporary...
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>

At home with Lego artist Adam Reed Tucker

Visit Adam Reed Tucker at his home in the northwest suburbs, the one where he constructs elaborate, museum-quality sculptures out of what most people think of as a toy, and...