Fred Armisen has got an ear for noise. Cue his new album, ‘100 Sound Effects’
There are moments when no other city sounds like Chicago, he says. Like when an "L" train is passing, or the moment you step out of a bustling restaurant in...
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Review: David Byrne has always made the totally original look head-slappingly obvious
His “Who Is the Sky Tour” is at the Auditorium in Chicago through the weekend. On an empty stage, the entire band and the singers stay in motion the whole...
Horror as a lifestyle: The rise of spooky and gothic shops
Slowly, steadily, a small but quite lively patchwork of horror-and-gothic-themed shopfronts and cafes and restaurants and bars have been replicating across America.
‘Yoko Ono: Music of the Mind’ at the MCA upends assumptions
This new Yoko Ono retrospective is epic but intimate, impossibly earnest but funny and full of irony, without a single wink.
Adam Sandler (and the pope, Caleb Williams, singalongs) brings heavy ’70s variety show vibes to United Center
Adam Sandler’s new shows are awkwardly titled the You’re My Best Friend Tour, but it's a pretty spot-on way of describing a show so driven by the audience’s warmth and...
Endless Halloween: The haunting life of Michael Myers of Decatur, Indiana
A few years back, Evan Zimmerman started dressing up as the killer from the "Halloween" movies. Videos of him in character have been viewed many millions of times.
Speaking truth to power: Tom Morello on his Goodman debut, activist art and growing up in Libertyville
“Revolution(s),” by Chicago playwright Zayd Ayers Dohrn, has music by the Rage Against the Machine guitarist and was inspired by his legacy of musical bomb-throwing.
As ‘SNL’ begins its 51st season, an appreciation of those celeb ‘bumper’ photos
The portraits have all been made by two photographers, Mary Ellen Matthews and Edie Baskin, who have collected their work in recent art books.
Poking around the scary, horrible, disgusting, excellent cauldron of new horror lit
Horror lit is in an unprecedented renaissance right now, driven by a diverse crop of new writers, robust horror sections in bookstores and the spread of horror-only book clubs. But...
Column: You think your office is a sitcom? I worked at Toledo’s Blade newspaper, a loose inspiration for ‘The Paper’
The new Peacock sitcom set at a Toledo newspaper is by the creators of “The Office.” Some real newspaper staffers in that Ohio city threw a little watch party in...