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The Field Museum's new large-scale diorama features striped hyenas eating a carcass in Somalia in 1896.

Striped hyenas feast in first new diorama at Field Museum in decades

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

It's been more than half a century since the Field Museum mounted a new, full-fledged diorama, one of those carefully staged scenes depicting preserved animals in natural surroundings. That changes...

Shedd hopes for another dolphin birth

June 11, 2018 at 5:27 a.m.

Another Pacific white-sided dolphin calf is expected at Shedd Aquarium, the institution announced Monday. Pregnant for the first time and expecting in late spring is Katrl (kuh-TREEL), the Shedd's 28-year-old...

‘X-Files’ returned, and brought the crazy back with it

June 9, 2018 at 1:23 a.m.

The truth, as "The X-Files" used to like to say, is out there. The crazy, we were reminded Sunday night with the return of the Fox series, is in the...

Bruce Springsteen performs with E Street Band members Little Steven Van Zandt, left, and Patti Scialfa during "The River" tour stop on Jan. 19, 2016, at the United Center in Chicago.

5 thoughts on Springsteen, in wake of the gig

December 17, 2018 at 6:25 p.m.

A handful of thoughts after Tuesday night's typically stirring Bruce Springsteen concert at the United Center, an early stop in this year's brief tour that sees him playing all of...

Media giant Univision’s purchase of The Onion sure to turn out just fine

June 9, 2018 at 4:06 a.m.

Let's try tackling this purchase of The Onion by Univision in a few Onion-style headlines (while simultaneously demonstrating that Onion-style headlines are hard to write): Plucky Business Confident Conglomerate Taking...

Busts of people of different races on display in the new exhibition "Looking at Ourselves: Rethinking the Sculptures of Malvina Hoffman," previewed Jan. 12, 2016, at the Field Museum in Chicago.

‘Races of Mankind’ sculptures displayed again, in a new light, at the Field

June 9, 2018 at 4:22 a.m.

When the "Races of Mankind" statues were finally taken off public display at the Field Museum in 1969, they were seen as relics from an earlier era of thinking about...

‘Serial’ podcast moving to biweekly

December 17, 2018 at 6:28 p.m.

"Serial," the hit podcast that has made its weekly schedule part of its mission statement, is moving to an every-other-week schedule, the show said in a surprise announcement Tuesday. This...

David Bowie performs at Bercy Arena in Paris on Oct. 20, 2003.

David Bowie’s pop culture influence, in eight steps

December 17, 2018 at 6:28 p.m.

As we mourn the loss of David Bowie, what keeps coming to mind is the huge impact he had on our times, anticipating and, often, helping to shape its twists...

"Dressing Downton: Changing Fashion for Changing Times" opens at the Driehaus Museum in Chicago on Feb. 9.

Warriors and planets: Your guide to Chicago’s museums in 2016

December 17, 2018 at 6:30 p.m.

It's a mild winter so far, yes, but that doesn't mean folks want to be outside, tossing a Frisbee and whatnot. Fortunately, as they always do at this time of...

Shedd Aquarium names Bridget Coughlin as CEO

December 17, 2018 at 6:30 p.m.

Bridget Coughlin remembers well the "revelation" that led from her giving up research science to being named CEO of the Shedd Aquarium on Wednesday. "I had been going in and...

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