Hearing Kelli Feigley talk about how her new, Chicago-made children's science TV series came together, it almost sounds easy to get a show on air.
Hearing Kelli Feigley talk about how her new, Chicago-made children's science TV series came together, it almost sounds easy to get a show on air.
Winter is, or ought to be, museum season. Outdoor activities do not beckon, or ought not to, especially here in the flatland. And everyone in the house is, or ought to be, stir-crazy. Our area's museums have responded by planning shows on subjects ranging from animal sex to jazz to robots....
Sunday's first episode of the new, Chicago-made kids' TV series "Moochie Kalala Detectives Club" starts with Tim Kazurinsky's character telling his grandkids a fantastical story that leads to a search for truth at Adler Planetarium.
During the continued cold snap Thursday, Chicago's kids will have a number of warm places to go.
Perhaps it was the fashion.
Over the next 51 weeks or so, you can expect in this space coverage of the biggest and brightest in Chicago-area museums. But for your New Year's Day, we've got Hummels, money, sports memorabilia and buttons — plus a roundup of 14 other smaller and/or less-known attractions. Some of these...
We take you away from the finger-pointing championship in Washington to report on other ferocious blizzards of blame occurring elsewhere: Yoko Ono, in a newly released interview, said the Beatles' breakup wasn't her fault — it was probably Paul McCartney's. Fox News commentator Mike...
I love the snow, but maybe you don't. Maybe you'd rather be indoors looking at art in rooms with sophisticated humidity and temperature control than out enjoying the formal and experiential brilliance of a radically transformed landscape. If so, here are some possibilities:
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?
The Museum of Contemporary Art's blockbuster "David Bowie Is" exhibit closes Sunday and, therefore, you have only a handful of days left to experience the following uncommon phenomena: packed MCA galleries.
In England, they have Boxing Day. In America, the day after Christmas — heck, the entire week between Christmas and New Year's — can feel like the aftermath of a holiday bout. Between running to the mall to return that terrible sweater (what were they thinking?) and figuring out how...
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...
A millionaire — an iconoclastic, private collection — a plan for a museum in a city park.
This has been a year of bittersweet goodbyes, as some of the brightest curators in Chicago have left for Toronto, Philadelphia, Kassel, Germany, and beyond. 2015 will fill those Lucite platform shoes with who-knows-who, but in the meantime, here's what we do know:
And she shall be "Luna."
Buildings going up in flames. Militarized police forces. Demonstrators disrupting routines of city life.
Chicago architect Jeanne Gang and her firm, Studio Gang Architects, have been selected to design a major expansion of the American Museum of Natural History in New York City.
Thanksgiving weekend used to be so simple — some food, some family time, some football for those so inclined. But then Black Friday busted down the door, marring the traditional kickoff to the season of goodwill with grim stories of consumers fighting over merchandise. (Don't even get...
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...
A recent visit to Chicago's Museum of Contemporary Art discovered in its galleries:
The sea pup polls are open.
With an Adler After Dark event last week, the Adler Planetarium's Doane Observatory quietly reopened for public use after a renovation that improved access to the building's 20-inch mirrored telescope, put in a lakeside ground-floor classroom/meeting room, and added heat, restrooms and windows.
His name sounds like one you'd give a character in a parody of patrician privilege.
A federal judge on Tuesday ordered that no physical changes be made to the proposed site for George Lucas' museum without approval from the court, which is hearing a lawsuit brought by open-space advocates who oppose locating the "Star Wars" creator's museum on the lakefront.
Chicago businessman Robert Blackwell is taking over as interim president and CEO at the DuSable Museum of African American History, but he intends to be an “activist” in the role, he said.
These days, the main floor of the Museum of Science and Industry is a little bit like a Christmas tree lot, but without the smell of evergreens, the giant ball of twine or the sketchy dude in the Carhartt jacket. In a long-running holiday tradition, the museum's "Christmas Around the World" has...
November is Native American Heritage Month. November also is the month of Thanksgiving, and the Mitchell Museum of the American Indian in Evanston is celebrating both with special activities over Thanksgiving Week.
Don Bacigalupi is going from helping one billionaire debut an art museum to another.
For a 10-month-old orangutan, Kecil is a pretty well-traveled guy.
On weekends, the Chicago History Museum is not stuffed to bursting with newcomers to the city, but it ought to be. One of the highest best uses of the information-rich institution at the south end of Lincoln Park is its ability to ground people in the lore of the metropolis. In a place with...
Open space advocates made good Thursday on their promise to go to court to block the proposed site for George Lucas’ museum, asserting in a federal lawsuit that the city of Chicago and the Park District overstepped their authority in offering a lakefront location to the “Star...
Who among us, as the winter freeze settles in, wouldn't like to visit a rainforest about now? Second best is "Rainforest Adventure," a new exhibit at the Peggy Notebaert Nature Museum in Lincoln Park. Along with a full educational dose about the ecosystems of these all-too-distant places, the...
Opponents of Mayor Rahm Emanuel's plan to allow George Lucas to build his museum on the lakefront will file a lawsuit in federal court on Thursday, the group told the Tribune.
The Lincoln Park Zoo’s lioness, Myra, had to be euthanized Tuesday at age 18 after going into declining health recently, the zoo announced.
I think I can explain the widespread public revulsion toward the just-released design for the Lucas Museum of Narrative Art. This isn't the typical shock of the new. People are mad because they instinctively get that this cartoonish mountain of a building would be glaringly out of place amid...
The Shedd Aquarium has announced the arrival of its newest inhabitant: a southern sea otter pup.
I thought I had finally gotten over my — let's not sugarcoat it — revulsion at being in butterfly gardens.
If you expected filmmaker George Lucas to give Chicago a low-slung museum that would slip quietly into the fiercely contested ground of the city's lakefront, I have news for you: You expected wrong.