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Jeremy Allen White, left, and and Ebon Moss-Bachrach in a scene from "The Bear."

There’s much to come in 2023 in entertainment and Chicago, in people and politics — and also here’s the correct way to pronounce ‘mayoral’

January 3, 2023 at 5:00 a.m.

I have never made a New Year's resolution, but I have spent many fruitful hours during the first days of a new year revisiting the past year. In doing so,...

When Groucho Marx met Dick Cavett, there was magic in the air and on your television sets

January 4, 2023 at 10:21 a.m.

Dick Cavett is 86 years old and appears to be in fine physical and mental shape. His friend and idol Groucho Marx is dead, has been for a long time,...

The legendary Practical Theatre gang — most of it — is back on a comedy stage in Evanston

December 27, 2022 at 11:51 a.m.

The memories rush back when I see their faces. There they stand, Paul Barrosse and Victoria Zielinski, married for more that 30 years, parents of two grown daughters, recently moved...

Angelo Badalamenti, the composer best known for creating otherworldly scores for many David Lynch productions, from "Blue Velvet" and "Twin Peaks" to "Mulholland Drive," died Sunday, Dec. 11, 2022. He was 85.

Remembering those we lost in 2022, from Angela Lansbury and Sergio Mims to the founder of Mustard’s Last Stand

December 18, 2022 at 5:00 a.m.

It has been the annual December tradition for Tribune critics and writers to mark the places and people and things that have departed over the previous year. It's never easy...

Richard Burton and Elizabeth Taylor on their way to California, stopping off on the Super Chief train in Chicago in 1964.

Give that man a camera: Remembering Tribune photographer Val Mazzenga, dead at 91

December 8, 2022 at 3:09 p.m.

Anthony Val Mazzenga walked from his family home on the West Side into the Tribune Tower in 1946 as a fresh-faced, personable and ambitious 15-year-old and over the next five...

The author Saul Bellow in 1982. An "American Masters" episode premiering on WTTW-Ch. 11 is titled "The Adventures of Saul Bellow."

The adventures of Nobel Prize-winning writer Saul Bellow come to ‘American Masters’

December 7, 2022 at 5:00 a.m.

Saul Bellow, the Nobel Prize-winning writer, was born in suburban Montreal and lived in many places across the globe, cities such as New York and Paris, a summer home in...

The Poetry Foundation and Poetry magazine announced in June 2022 that Adrian Matejka joined Poetry as the new editor.

Poetry has a new editor — and now a new issue. It’s time to give a fresh look at this important Chicago magazine.

November 30, 2022 at 10:53 a.m.

The new editor of Poetry magazine, one of the city's most important and influential publications, is Adrian Matejka, a great poet and a good guy. My colleague Darcel Rockett conducted...

Michael Butler attends a World Wildlife Fund benefit held at the Oak Brook Polo Club on Sept. 24, 1984.

Remembering the late Michael Butler, who produced ‘Hair,’ dated Audrey Hepburn and was pals with JFK and Jagger

November 29, 2022 at 5:00 a.m.

The 95-year-long life of Michael Butler, which ended on Nov. 7 at a nursing home in California was the stuff of legend and adjectives. Among those that attached to him...

The musician Michael McDermott at home in Orland Park on Nov. 10, 2022.

The happy ups and dangerous downs in the life and career of local rocker Michael McDermott

November 23, 2022 at 5:00 a.m.

The rock 'n' roll life can be a very hard life, and Michael McDermott knows that as well as anyone who is still alive and kicking, and writing: "Music is...

From the show ‘Late Night Catechism’ to now, Vicki Quade has done it her way. Including with a new Chicago book.

November 22, 2022 at 5:00 a.m.

Vicki Quade will be back on stage this coming weekend in a show she refers to as a "Christmas Bingo: It's a Ho-Ho-Holy Night," a holiday variation of her "Bible...

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