Sex tape stunt or tour by bicycle? Lessons in modern music promotion
The Internet was aghast this week when it learned the L.A. band Yacht had faked having their sex tape stolen in order to draw attention to a new song about...
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Inside the first museum show by DARPA, the ‘Pentagon’s brain’
With a new show spotlighting drones, robots and space-based weaponry, the Museum of Science and Industry is doing something unprecedented: It's presenting an exhibition made by and recruiting for DARPA,...
Searching for Chicago in the ‘Good Wife’s’ pretty good finale
Trying to find Chicago in "The Good Wife," the long-running CBS series set but not shot in the city, has been a frustrating experience throughout its seven seasons. Sunday night's...
I don’t solemnly swear: 5 thoughts on ‘Game of Thrones’ 3rd episode
Instead of the heavy action of the season's first two hours, Sunday's "Game of Thrones," called "Oathbreaker," was more about putting pieces on the chess board into place. But there...
Chicago National Public Housing Museum aims for the conscience
From the roof of the red-brick building that may as early as next year become the National Public Housing Museum, you can see up and down Taylor Street. You can...
Shedd’s new dolphin: It’s a boy
The Pacific white-sided dolphin calf born at the Shedd Aquarium two weeks ago has been sexed, as they say in the trade, and it's a boy, the aquarium reported Thursday....
Meet your new show to binge-watch: ‘Catastrophe’
I can tell you, people, it's getting bad out there. George Lucas' Star Wars museum — official slogan: "Not a Star Wars Museum" — is running away from Chicago, taking...
5 thoughts on ‘Game of Thrones” eye-widening 2nd episode
So that was an episode, huh? Right away, you could figure things were going to get bloody because there was no nudity warning, and a "Game of Thrones" with no...
‘Email Debt Forgiveness Day’: A reprieve for people with long overdue emails
The apology to the old classmate who emailed you last year that he was coming to town — and never heard back from you. The responses you've never written to...
‘Dad Magazine’ pokes fun at the changing status of fathers — and their quirks
There is this thing I mutter around my house, probably at least three times a week, usually upstairs, usually in relation to the bathroom late at night. It goes like...