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Coldplay perform at the American Music Awards at the Microsoft Theater in Los Angeles.

Super Bowl halftime, where too much is just enough

June 12, 2018 at 3:23 a.m.

I cannot wait for the Super Bowl halftime show!Really! I love seeing the acts that middle America agrees on take the stage! As everybody who's ever looked at a list...

A costume worn by the character Cora Crawley in the television show "Downton Abbey" is displayed at the Driehaus Museum as part of the exhibit "Dressing Downton: Changing Fashion for Changing Times," on Feb. 3 2016, in Chicago.

‘Dressing Downton’ costume exhibit is a crowning moment for the Driehaus Museum

December 17, 2018 at 6:22 p.m.

When Chicago's Driehaus Museum booked the exhibition "Dressing Downton: Changing Fashion for Changing Times" for early this year, executives knew it would arrive during the sixth season of "Downton Abbey,"...

Chicago Humanities Festival announces first-ever Spring Festival

June 11, 2018 at 6:59 a.m.

Long a fixture on the fall cultural scene, the Chicago Humanities Festival is making a push into spring with its first-ever Spring Festival, devoted to the question of style. Confirmed...

Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump speaks during a campaign event, Monday, Feb. 1, 2016 in Waterloo, Iowa.

Donald Trump a ‘reality star genius’? TV ratings tell different story

December 17, 2018 at 6:22 p.m.

Donald Trump is many things, but "reality star genius" is not one of them. One of the oft-spoken assumptions of this oddball campaign season -- the one that got its...

Steven Avery and the ‘Murderer’ industry

June 12, 2018 at 8:02 a.m.

Suddenly, everyone wants a piece of Steven Avery.Largely forgotten while he sat in Wisconsin prisons for the past decade, convicted for the second time of a violent felony against a...

Kanye West and Wiz Khalifa got into a fued on Twitter this week.

When Kanye West and Wiz Khalifa clashed on Twitter

December 17, 2018 at 6:23 p.m.

Kanye West and Wiz Khalifa had a Twitter beef. This is different than a rap beef in that nothing actually gets recorded and if it rhymes, it only does so...

James Rondeau, photographed Jan. 27, 2016, has been appointed the president and Eloise W. Martin director of the Art Institute of Chicago. He will take over Feb. 16.

James Rondeau named new Art Institute of Chicago director

June 11, 2018 at 7:00 a.m.

The Art Institute of Chicago's search for a new leader was deemed "international." Its choice, announced Thursday, was hyper-regional, a man who had been in the building all along. James...

The Adler Planetarium saw an attendance increase of about 22 percent, to 550,000 visitors, in 2015, according to figures released Wednesday by the Museums in the Park consortium, and individual institutions.

Chicago area museums report 2015 as an up year in attendance

December 17, 2018 at 6:23 p.m.

Adler Planetarium last year topped 500,000 visitors for the first time in 22 years, and Morton Arboretum bested the 1 million mark for the first time in its history. Those...

Chase Crown, 5, looks at an exhibit at
the DuPage Children's Museum in Naperville.

Hammer away: A visit to Navy Pier, DuPage and Kohl Children’s Museums

December 17, 2018 at 6:24 p.m.

At two of the area's major children's museums, visitors will find what may come as a surprise, even a shock: little kids using real hammers, real nails and real saws...

The Art Institute of Chicago received the record $35 million donation from the will of Massachusetts collector Dorothy Braude Edinburg, who died in January 2015.

Art Institute receives largest cash gift in its history

December 17, 2018 at 6:24 p.m.

The Art Institute of Chicago on Tuesday announced the largest cash bequest in its history, a donation of more than $35 million from one of its steadiest benefactors in recent...

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