Steve Johnson – Page 77

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 of Science and Industry dips a toe into nightlife

December 17, 2018 at 5:51 p.m.

Chicago's Museum of Science and Industry will hold its first-ever 21-and-over public event, following a trend long established at other Chicago museums. The July 16 "MSI After Hours: Brick Bash"...

2016 Chicago Humanities Fest has its theme: Speed

December 17, 2018 at 5:51 p.m.

This year's Chicago Humanities Festival theme will be "Speed," the institution was set to announce Tuesday, but that doesn't mean the annual autumn cultural event will play like NASCAR of...

Ballad of the lone wolves: 5 thoughts on ‘Game of Thrones’ Episode 8

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Well, people, "Game of Thrones" has now had its hokiest scene ever. If this were a lesser series, you would have sworn you saw a shark jumping in the waters...

Release The Hound: 5 thoughts on ‘Game of Thrones’ Episode 7

June 10, 2018 at 12:23 p.m.

It was a very bad evening for Starks. On three fronts things got much worse for the offspring of Ned Stark, the household head with whom we started this "Game...

‘Mad Men’ auction gives people a chance to own Don Draper’s shades, sheets, or even convertible

December 17, 2018 at 5:54 p.m.

Joan Harris' office ice bucket and tumbler. Betty Francis' wooden bar cart. The silver-rimmed glasses, Schweppes cans and booze bottles from Don Draper's bar cart. If you're sensing that a...

MacArthur Foundation has $100 million for a problem solver

December 17, 2018 at 5:54 p.m.

If you've got a big global problem in mind and a good idea for how to solve it, then the MacArthur Foundation may have a little something for you: a...

7 ways the first Olympics were better

December 17, 2018 at 5:54 p.m.

As the world wonders how this summer's Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro might not be a disaster — and as losing bidder Chicago thinks about how those games would...

Rebels, rebels: 5 thoughts on ‘Game of Thrones’ Episode 6

June 11, 2018 at 10:20 p.m.

"Game of Thrones" this week was about rebellion. In another episode stuffed with big plot developments, Samwell, Arya and Tommen, in one way or another, all cast off their masters...

First ride: Atop Navy Pier’s new Ferris wheel

December 17, 2018 at 5:55 p.m.

At the apex of the new Ferris wheel ride at Navy Pier, almost 200 feet above the boat-riding, margarita-drinking throngs, there are important things to think about, such as: How...

‘Planet Nine,’ Adler’s best sky show yet, chronicles quest for a Pluto replacement

December 17, 2018 at 5:55 p.m.

The Adler Planetarium has been mounting sky shows in its high-resolution central dome theater for five years now. This year's new show, called "Planet Nine" after the search for some...

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