‘Amphibians’ at the Shedd: Poison newt skin and froggy facts
Eye of newt? Check. Toe of frog? Yes, lots of those. It's not a medieval potion Shedd Aquarium has cooked up, however, or an ingredients list for the witches of...
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Field Museum announces record gifts of $70 million, a $250 million goal
Jump-started by its three largest donations ever, the Field Museum is to announce Wednesday that it will attempt to raise $250 million to support its collections and endowment, improve visitor...
Advertising mascots are the stars at Museum of Broadcast Communications
The products they tout are all over the map or, more precisely, the grocery store: refrigerated roll dough, bug spray, canned tuna, all-purpose cleaning fluid, packaged vegetables, cat food and...
Baby snow monkey is born at Lincoln Park Zoo
It's a snow monkey! Lincoln Park Zoo on Monday announced the first birth amid its new troop of Japanese macaques, commonly known as snow monkeys. The male, as yet unnamed,...
2015 Humanities Fest to include Anna Deavere Smith, Walter Isaacson
The fall Chicago Humanities Festival has an organizing theme, the festival announced Tuesday, and it is one Charles Foster Kane and the ancient Greeks might agree is important: Citizens. Current-events...
The Onion website gets an update
Even an area man would notice there's something new about The Onion. More than just the story asserting that "Parents of Crying Child Must Not Be Any Good," the satirical...
100 years for North Park Village, a former tuberculosis sanitarium
The property is known now as North Park Village, home to senior housing and a Chicago Park District gymnastics center and nature center that lets people explore 46 wild-ish acres...
‘House On Mango Street’ packs them in
If you went to the opening-night reception for the art exhibition inspired by "The House on Mango Street," Sandra Cisneros' revered 1984 novel about coming of age in Chicago, you...
‘Leech-nado’ video is one more reason to spurn Green Bay
More than just being the stuff of lake swimmers' nightmares, the "leech-nado" video filmed by a Shedd Aquarium researcher gives Chicagoans one more reason to spurn Green Bay. What is...
Strong looks sharp at White House correspondents’ dinner
Whatever Cecily Strong was going to say about President Barack Obama at the 2015 White House Correspondents' Association dinner, there was no way it would sting as much as what...