Steve Johnson – Page 81

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>

Preston Bradley Center a hidden concert hall gem in Uptown neighborhood

June 8, 2018 at 10:29 p.m.

The Preston Bradley Center was filled to near-capacity again Saturday night, like in its heyday as a church sanctuary. This time, though, instead of gentlemen in hats listening to the...

"American Idol" winner Trent Harmon celebrates as judges Jennifer Lopez and Keith Urban look on.

‘American Idol’ goes out with a stunning upset; let’s not overpraise the corpse

June 11, 2018 at 2:28 a.m.

"American Idol," as it stumbles off of the American stage after 15 seasons, is getting a lot of credit for a lot of cultural influence. Count me as more of...

An exhibit uses mounted Gray and Fox squirrels to demonstrate an adaptable species with a wide habitat at the Peggy Notebaert Nature Museum's new Weather and Climate exhibit.

At the Notebaert Museum, ‘Weather to Climate’ and what both mean for us

December 17, 2018 at 6:04 p.m.

Count the Peggy Notebaert Nature Museum as one entity that is doing something about the weather, rather than, like most of us, just complaining about it. It is also doing...

Shedd’s new ‘Aquatic Show’ tosses the script and goes for natural

December 17, 2018 at 6:06 p.m.

You might think an effort that goes before the public daily as the "Aquatic Show" would be a pretty low-key affair. Don't let the lack of a fancy title fool...

A detail of the bedroom of an Airbnb rental apartment in Chicago that has been outfitted by the Art Institute of Chicago to look like the one Van Gogh painted in "The Bedroom," subject of a new exhibition.

No starry night, but a comfy double bed in Van Gogh’s bedroom in Chicago

June 30, 2019 at 1:30 p.m.

The bed, although it very much resembles the one that looks a little off-center in the painting, did not spin. I did not awake before dawn, pull a smock from...

Shandling, left, and Peter Tolan show off their Emmys for Outstanding Writing for a Comedy Series during the 1998 Emmy Awards at the Shrine Auditorium.

How Garry Shandling broke the TV formula

March 29, 2019 at 11:33 p.m.

It is not too much of a stretch to say that Garry Shandling invented modern television. "The Larry Sanders Show" was his masterpiece -- indeed, one of TV's masterpieces --...

Art Institute names new deputy director

June 8, 2018 at 11:27 p.m.

The Art Institute of Chicago Thursday named Ann Goldstein, a curator with long experience in Los Angeles, Amsterdam and Chicago, as its new deputy director and its chair and curator...

A photo display of the famous lunch counter sit-in in Greensboro North Carolina at the DuSable Museum of African American History in 2015.

DuSable Museum gets Smithsonian tie

December 17, 2018 at 6:08 p.m.

The DuSable Museum of African American History is now formally affiliated with the Smithsonian Institutions in Washington, D.C., the Chicago museum announced Wednesday. The new Smithsonian Affiliatie status will increase...

Greg Joswiak, vice president of iOS, iPad and iPhone product marketing, announces the new iPhone SE at Apple headquarters on March 21, 2016, in Cupertino, Calif.

Apple unveiled a new iPhone, and the world, shockingly, yawned

March 29, 2019 at 3:03 a.m.

Remember the days of breathless live coverage of new Apple product announcements? Of keeping a corner window on your work terminal open so you could know first -- or at...

Remnants of the past remain on the eighth floor of the former main Chicago post office in 2009.

Lucas Museum or world’s largest Costco? New plans for the Old Main Post Office

December 17, 2018 at 6:09 p.m.

Chicago's Old Main Post Office, the mega-building that squats over railroad tracks and the Congress Expressway, has been more resistant to rehab than the junkies in "Trainspotting." For decades now,...

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