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Stephen Colbert hosts the premiere episode of "The Late Show" on Sept. 8, 2015, in New York.

Review: In Stephen Colbert’s ‘Late Show’ premiere, the ‘real Stephen’ stays edgy

April 6, 2019 at 12:34 a.m.

On the surface, Stephen Colbert's first "Late Show" on CBS looked and sounded like something from the category to which it belongs, a network late-night talk show. All the trappings...

The Adler Planetarium, Shedd Aquarium and Chicago skyline on Aug. 18, 2015.

First Chicago Museum Week joins a dozen area museums

December 17, 2018 at 7:09 p.m.

For the first time, Chicago museums this fall will band together to offer discounts, special programming and more in a promotion they are calling Chicago Museum Week. The Oct. 1-7...

Jaap Hoogstraten, head exhibit designer at the Field Museum

‘Mammoths and Mastodons’ extends at the Field Museum

March 29, 2019 at 10:28 a.m.

Mammoths and mastodons stopped walking the earth thousands of years ago, but they will be around at the Field Museum for a few months longer. The exhibition "Mammoths and Mastodons:...

Concertgoers listen to Weezer at the 2014 Riot Fest in Humboldt Park.

Riot Fest Chicago offers two-day passes for limited time

December 17, 2018 at 7:09 p.m.

Riot Fest Chicago is offering special two-day passes to the three-day music festival via discount website Groupon. The $149.98 tickets can be bought in any two-day combination for the Sept....

Stephen Colbert during a taping of Comedy Central's "The Colbert Report" in 2014.

Kanye West steals Miley’s spotlight at MTV Video Music Awards

December 17, 2018 at 7:11 p.m.

Miley Cyrus tried hard, very hard, to be the story of the 2015 MTV Video Music Awards, which she hosted Sunday night in Los Angeles and on multiple cable television...

Snow leopard cubs born at Brookfield Zoo

December 17, 2018 at 7:11 p.m.

The Chicago region's net cuteness level just rose several notches. Brookfield Zoo on Friday released photographs of its two new baby snow leopard cubs, born June 16 at the west...

Field Museum makes job cuts

March 4, 2020 at 7:44 p.m.

The Field Museum laid off four exhibitions department employees Monday and told 17 contract workers aligned with the department that their contracts would not be renewed, a museum spokeswoman said...

Papal fave ‘White Crucifixtion’ is on the move from the Art Institute

June 15, 2018 at 10:17 a.m.

"I'm missing the Chagall. It doesn't look right to me," said Stephanie D'Allesandro, the Art Institute's Comer Curator of International Modern Art. She was looking at a wall in the...

Elvis Costello performs during an Apple product announcement at the Apple campus in 2013. The songwriter is part of the 2015 Chicago Humanities Festival lineup.

Humanities Fest lineup: Citizenship debates, Patton Oswalt and Elvis Costello

June 16, 2018 at 4:19 p.m.

You can let the planned appearances of musician Elvis Costello and well-known comics Patton Oswalt and Aasif Mandvi fool you into thinking the 2015 Chicago Humanities Festival might be leaning...

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