Eilen Jewell is a sharp, acrid gem of a performer
Eilen Jewell has drawn comparisons to musicians from Lucinda Williams to Madeleine Peyroux as she's put out a series of accomplished Americana albums over the last decade. There's validity in...
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China’s terra-cotta warriors coming to the Field Museum
A new exhibition derived from China's famed terra-cotta army of ancient clay figures will open at the Field Museum in March, the museum announced Wednesday. "China's First Emperor and His...
Field Museum scientists help grow the rainforest
Peru has a new, 3.3-million-acre national park in the Amazonian rain forest, thanks to an international effort in which Field Museum scientists played a key role, museum officials said Tuesday.The...
Chicago’s Chagall gets its audience with Pope Francis
Pope Francis has now seen his favorite painting, a Marc Chagall canvas from the collection of the Art Institute of Chicago, in person.Tuesday morning in Florence, Italy, Francis was able...
Humanities Festival reports 51 sold-out events, higher ticket sales this year
It was a record-setting year, a spokeswoman said, for the 2015 Chicago Humanities Festival, organized around a theme of Citizens and just ended Sunday. Final tallies haven't been completed yet,...
Donald Trump on ‘SNL’: 5 thoughts
In the end, the anticipation far outpaced -- trumped, you might say -- the reality. For weeks, people had fretted about Donald Trump, Republican presidential candidate, despoiler of a Chicago...
Amazon’s new crop of pilots shows promise
In the new television reality, viewers sometimes get a more direct role in what gets seen than the old method of hoping the Nielsen company would make them part of...
Chicago Collections brings city-related archives under one digital roof
The big news in area archiving that's being shown off Thursday is about, in the driest, most basic terms, "consolidated access to bibliographic information," as Newberry Library President David Spadafora...
Marlon James on ‘A Brief History of Seven Killings’
"Spoiler alert," Marlon James kept saying during a fascinating discussion of his prize-winning novel, "A Brief History of Seven Killings." But rather than diminish interest in his bloody, sprawling, not-at-all...
Field Museum plans Bill Stanley memorial service
The Field Museum will host next week a memorial service for Bill Stanley, the museum mammalogist and frequent spokesperson who died early this month while doing research in Ethiopia. The...