It wasn't immediately obvious that a rock-star retrospective would work at Chicago's Museum of Contemporary Art. Aren't there music museums in Cleveland and Seattle for that kind of thing?

So, apparently, there might be more of “Stephen Colbert,” the fictional wing-nut talk show host portrayed so winningly by Stephen Colbert during nine-plus years of “The Colbert Report” on Comedy Central. What else are we to make of a finale, Thursday night, in which...

The biggest museum story in Chicago in 2014 was, of course, the one that's on the horizon. During the year, billionaire filmmaker George Lucas chose Chicago for his Lucas Museum of Narrative Art, was offered a prime lakefront site in a current Soldier Field parking lot, and put forward a...

Watching the first episode of "The Colbert Report," I remember thinking, He cannot possibly sustain this.

The best thing about the Tuesday debut of the new, set-in-Chicago season of MTV's "The Real World" is that it's a sure sign taping is over and these people have left our city.

And she shall be "Luna."

The new, friendlier name for Pup 681, the Shedd Aquarium's rescued baby sea otter and resident media darling, will be announced at 8 a.m. Friday, the morning after voting was scheduled to end, the aquarium said Thursday.

Lonnie Bunch had a good thing going in Chicago. He was running the Chicago Historical Society, helping to guide its transition to eventually becoming the more outward facing Chicago History Museum. Chicago's community of civic leaders had welcomed him into their ranks, asking him to help woo...