The bugs are coming! If a cicada invasion sounds familiar, thank Hollywood
They arrive by the millions, emerging, crawling, mindlessly feeding. At your local multiplex ... or in your backyard?
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Column: Kids like to swear. Do I blame Olivia Rodrigo? Or do I blame myself?
I turned to the parent next to me at the United Center and asked what she was going to do about all the, you know ... all of the swearing.
Column: Devo in concert in Chicago: At 50, no signs of de-evolution
Fifty years after forming, Devo has never broken into laughter at its own satire. At least not on stage. They remain a dystopic mirror of pop pretense, still play their...
In memoriam: As a ’90s producer and music tastemaker, Steve Albini was brutally honest — and usually right
He was vintage Gen-X sarcastic, ironic, contrarian, principled. He was the record store owner who frowns at what you bring to his cash register.
Chicago author Jonathan Eig wins Pulitzer Prize for his groundbreaking biography of Martin Luther King, Jr.
Eig said he was home alone in Lakeview when he heard the announcement. “It’s kind of hard to top the year I just had."
C2E2: Our 9 best bets for 2024, from people-watching to prom
This weekend's Chicago Comic & Entertainment Expo is proof that fans still want their geek gatherings live and in-person. Our list of what not to miss.
It Came from Wisconsin: A chat with James Tynion IV, the reigning king of comic book horror
His work includes very of-the-moment comics about federal conspiracy (“The Department of Truth”) and world apocalypse (“The Nice House on the Lake”).
Review: Magnetic Fields plays ’69 Love Songs’ at Thalia Hall, a long and epic romance
It’s asking a lot of an audience of a certain age — ahem — to return two nights in a row for one performance. Specifically, a performance of a masterwork...
Column: As ‘Tortured Poets Department’ arrives, we wondered: Can Taylor Swift be poetry?
It goes back to debates about Dylan — actually much earlier. It has special roots in Chicago's own blend of slam poetry and songwriting. What's a song, and what's a...
Column: ‘Shame of Chicago, Shame of the Nation’ on WTTW lays bare a city’s history of housing discrimination
What this series brings to the history of Chicago and social justice is a terrible clarity at a time when at least half the country refuses to accept structural racism.