5 thoughts on the ‘Game of Thrones’ season 6 premiere
Five quick thoughts about what I'll call "A Song of Corpse and Crone," the sixth season premiere of "Game of Thrones," which aired Sunday night on HBO. The episode followed...
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Robbie Fulks enters new emotional territory on ‘Upland Stories’
Robbie Fulks isn't sure if there's a growing appetite for the kind of music he makes on his beautiful new record, "Upland Stories": closely observed, richly melodic songs about hard,...
How North Shore boy ditches ‘success culture’ to cook — and become 3-star chef
It wasn't much, the kitchen at Ravinia Festival in the early 1990s. But something about it appealed to a teenage Christopher Kostow, a Highland Park kid raised firmly in the...
‘Animal selfies’ in Amazon rainforest captured by Field Museum cameras
Let's take the Field Museum at its word that "animal selfies" are what its research team brought back from the depths of the South American rain forest. And then let's...
The new Jason Bourne trailer is out. Meh
I realize this may cost me my Internet card, but I am emphatically not excited about the trailer for the forthcoming Jason Bourne movie that "dropped" this morning. And I...
Is Donald Trump the Jesse Ventura of national politics?
There was a time when I, like many people, thought Donald Trump was merely "running for president." You know, grabbing a late-period Newt Gingrich-style blast of free publicity in order...
Chicago History Museum wins National Medal for Museum and Library Services
The Chicago History Museum Tuesday won a top award in its field for its work with community and neighborhood groups. The Institute of Museum and Library Sciences named the Lincoln...
Texting in movies may be the least of theaters’ problems
I am firmly in favor of allowing texting in movie theaters -- during any film derived from a character who began life in a comic book, which is to say,...
‘Greatest living painter’? MCA shows life’s work of Kerry James Marshall
For the forthcoming, 70-plus-painting retrospective of his work, the one that will open at the Museum of Contemporary Art and then travel to New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art and...
Naked truth about the new Playboy
So Playboy cologne is still a thing. Somewhere in America there remain enough men who think to themselves, I want to smell like that brand. Or maybe: Smelling like that...