Highs and lows of 2025 Super Bowl ads: Aliens, AI, America and Afflecks
Among this year's spots during the big game, Dunkin' doubles down, Bill Murray divulges his email address and Elmo looks confused. Me too, Elmo, but the ad worked.
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Philosophy professor Agnes Callard believes in the power of a full-blown argument
Her superpowers as a philosopher sprung out of the frustration at getting her thoughts and herself across to people who couldn't care less about philosophy.
Neko Case didn’t set out to write a tell-all. Yet she still told plenty in ‘The Harder I Fight The More I Love You’
Her new book is unlike her music in an important way: The book is as direct as her song writing is cryptic. Those Chicago years play an important part.
Marty Goddard changed how we think about sexual assault. A new history looks at why you have never heard of her.
It was a Chicago citizen, not the Chicago Police Department, who turned her dedication to helping victims of sexual assault into the invention of the rape kit, the evidence collection...
The rise and fall and rise again of Richard Pryor — Criterion releases a new edition of ‘Jo Jo Dancer’
His autobiographical 1986 movie reaches back to his days growing up in Peoria. The comedian accomplished so much, and could have accomplished so much more.
Is this anything? The Art Institute’s Nancy Holt exhibit and the art of looking
Right now, at the Modern Wing of the Art Institute of Chicago, on the Bluhm Family Terrace looking out over Millennium Park and skyscrapers along Michigan Avenue, there is nothing....
Bill Murray & His Blood Brothers played Thalia Hall in a blues concert both serious and not
Should you ever get the chance, start your new year with Bill Murray singing, his fists clenched, his arms thrusting furiously downward like they had nowhere to go, that doughy...
Column: Reader, so confusing: Making sense of 2024, with an eye on 2025
Between Chicago's rat hole, “Clown Torture” at the Art Institute, Chappell Roan at Lollapalooza and “Every Brilliant Thing” at Writers Theatre, I learned that from 2024.
The ‘wildly impractical’ career of Chicago book critic Donna Seaman
There’s a slyly damning scene in Donna Seaman’s new memoir about her talent/habit/mandate for reading all the time. In this scene, Seaman is shoplifting. She’s a kid, but not stealing...
Scary ghost stories … for Christmas? There’s a long tradition and it goes way beyond Krampus
Let's remember that Charles Dickens' "A Christmas Carol" is a ghost story. Telling dark and scary tales for the holidays is a tradition that dates back to pagan times.