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"King: A Life" by Jonathan Eig (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2023).

Jonathan Eig wrote ‘King: A Life’ about Martin Luther King Jr. — the man this time, instead of the myth

March 12, 2024 at 12:03 p.m.

The air-conditioned tour bus with tinted windows stopped outside Bright Star Baptist Church in Bronzeville and out came several dozen congregants from the Anshe Emet Synagogue of Lakeview. They moved...

Fans watch King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard perform at the Salt Shed on June 11, 2023 in Chicago.

Review: King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard isn’t a band, it’s a lifestyle. And a strange one at that.

June 12, 2023 at 11:30 a.m.

King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard — which is cool to say, if nothing else — is fun. Like, capital F fun. The same fun once associated with rock. The...

Update your beach read: 52 books for summer 2023, with some themes in mind

June 7, 2023 at 1:13 p.m.

Let's try something new this summer. Rather than burdening yourself with postcard dreams of a beach towel and a book, instead of picturing yourself inside a portrait of lazy mornings...

Lili Trifilio leads Beach Bunny at Riot Fest in Chicago's Douglass Park on Sept. 17, 2021.

What was your first concert? Chicago musicians share theirs

June 1, 2023 at 9:22 a.m.

With Taylor Swift mania in town this weekend, and with it, the probability of young music fans going to their first show, I asked Chicago musicians, producers and others: What...

Carly Rae Jepsen performs at the Bonnaroo Music and Arts Festival on June 18, 2022, in Manchester, Tennessee.

Taking my daughter to her first concert, and what I learned

June 1, 2023 at 9:21 a.m.

Go to a rock concert if you want, my grandmother urged, sardonically. Go and see: You will wish you had never gone. Most likely, you'll be murdered in the restroom....

Roberta Ginsburg, from left, speaks to Whitney Counts and Armari Padilla at the Toxic Waste sour candy display at the Sweets & Snacks Expo at McCormick Place, May 24, 2023.

After 26 years, Sweets & Snacks Expo leaves Chicago, bringing with it a century of wacko candy names

May 26, 2023 at 3:21 p.m.

The Candy Show, also known as the National Confectioners Association annual trade meeting, officially known as the Sweets & Snacks Expo, has been a staple of McCormick Place for 26...

Author Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah on May 10, 2023, in Chicago's West Loop.

Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah’s ‘Chain-Gang All-Stars’ is one of the year’s goriest novels. It’s also one of the best.

May 24, 2023 at 5:15 a.m.

In the first nine days that Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah was on tour this month for his novel, "Chain-Gang All-Stars," there were 23 mass shootings in this country. More than 30...

Tina Fey and Amy Poehler launch their "Restless Leg Tour" this weekend in Rosemont and at the Chicago Theatre.

Review: Tina Fey and Amy Poehler return to Chicago stages after 30 years, and it’s all charm

May 20, 2023 at 10:12 a.m.

What do you call what Tina Fey and Amy Poehler did at the Rosemont Theatre Friday night? Vaudeville? A 100-minute comedy hang? A sweet, loosely organized catch-up between Chicago-bred comics...

The comic Lisa Beasley does a TikTok impersonation of Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot Jan. 10, 2022

Seriously, was Lori Lightfoot funny? A look back at the memeing of the Chicago mayor.

May 10, 2023 at 12:02 p.m.

Someday, in the distant future, when you think back on the single mayoral term of Lori Lightfoot, when the name comes up and you hadn't heard it much lately, what...

Bert I. Gordon of Kenosha made terrible movies for 60 years. He’s an inspiration.

May 5, 2023 at 1:43 p.m.

Bert I. Gordon, who died earlier this spring at 100, was the absolute worst filmmaker who ever lived. Or so some might argue. You've heard Ed Wood was the worst....

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