‘Serial’ podcast returns with second season
Season up, servers down.That appeared to be the case briefly Thursday morning when the first episode of the second season of the hit podcast "Serial" was posted without advance fanfare...
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Massive art gift transforms Art Institute
Walking with Stefan Edlis amid the pop art masterpieces in the new Edlis/Neeson Collection galleries at the Art Institute of Chicago is very different than the typical art museum experience....
‘A Very Murray Christmas’ puts musical treats, deadpan comedy under the tree
Hearing that Netflix is showing an all-new Bill Murray Christmas special is one thing. Why shouldn't Murray front an all-star gathering, like, say, Bing Crosby and Stephen Colbert before him?...
Rating Chicago’s museum websites — beginning with the MCA
A lot of people don't like contemporary art, and now, apparently, a lot of people don't like the Museum of Contemporary Art's new website. I'm guessing, though, that the people...
Adler Planetarium counts 500,000th visitor, a big jump in attendance
Adler Planetarium has topped 500,000 annual visitors for the first time since 1993, the lakefront space museum crowed in a news release Tuesday. Running about 22 percent ahead of 2014...
Milwaukee Art Museum reopens with new galleries, new lakefront
Some of the most engaging galleries at the Milwaukee Art Museum are filled with folk and outsider works, exuberant constructions that seem to have been improvised more than planned, by...
‘The Greeks’ at Field Museum: 500 artifacts to sum up civilization
Having a big new exhibition called "The Greeks" at the Field Museum is more than fitting. The Field's wedding-cake building, after all, is in a style derived from classical Greek...
‘Serial’ starts streaming, but confusion abounds amid wait for Season 2
"Serial," the only podcast popular enough to have been parodied on "Saturday Night Live," starts streaming Tuesday on Pandora, according to the terms of a new deal. But that does...
When, where and how bright: Our guide to holiday light displays
Let there be light, some of the area's leading attractions say each year as Christmas approaches. And Chicagoans respond unto them by going to see the light, and it is...
Song of the ‘Ren’: Quirky art museum celebrates 100 years
Six sequins were missing. From a beaded dress after a night out, it's maybe not such a big deal. But when the baubles are absent from one of Joseph Cornell's...