Christopher Borrelli

You can’t dance to it, and there is no melody nor any lyrics. But the sounds of cicadas are music — music that buzzes, whines, thrums and fizzes.

Music and Concerts |
There’s no beat, no lyrics. You can’t dance to it. But cicada music is the coolest music you know

June 11, 2024 at 9:37 a.m.

You can’t dance to it, and there is no melody nor any lyrics. But the sounds of cicadas are music — music that buzzes, whines, thrums and fizzes.

For one week, the esteemed art house will screen 24 of Godzilla’s 35 live-action movies from the past 70 years.

Movies |
Column: Godzilla, bigger than ever, stomps into the Music Box. I feel so seen.

June 6, 2024 at 1:20 p.m.

For one week, the esteemed art house will screen 24 of Godzilla’s 35 live-action movies from the past 70 years.

From beach reads and sports books to histories and culture war, our 44 titles for the next three months. Get reading.

Books |
Summer books 2024: It’s summertime and the reading’s easy. Or epic. Choose your own adventure.

June 6, 2024 at 1:24 p.m.

From beach reads and sports books to histories and culture war, our 44 titles for the next three months. Get reading.

The Pulitzer winner who has advised presidents is still writing. His influential books include “Lincoln at Gettysburg” and “Why I Am a Catholic,” but he's decided he no longer is.

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Garry Wills at 90: The influential historian has become his own iconoclast

May 30, 2024 at 5:45 a.m.

The Pulitzer winner who has advised presidents is still writing. His influential books include “Lincoln at Gettysburg” and “Why I Am a Catholic,” but he's decided he no longer is.

This Memorial Day, assuming you wake up early enough, you may notice the United States flag at half-staff. When you get up matters, because only on Memorial Day, Old Glory flies at half-staff until noon.

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Column: Is our flag at half-staff all the time now? For Memorial Day, we asked why

May 26, 2024 at 4:57 p.m.

This Memorial Day, assuming you wake up early enough, you may notice the United States flag at half-staff. When you get up matters, because only on Memorial Day, Old Glory...

They arrive by the millions, emerging, crawling, mindlessly feeding. At your local multiplex ... or in your backyard?

Movies |
The bugs are coming! If a cicada invasion sounds familiar, thank Hollywood

May 29, 2024 at 2:56 p.m.

They arrive by the millions, emerging, crawling, mindlessly feeding. At your local multiplex ... or in your backyard?

I turned to the parent next to me at the United Center and asked what she was going to do about all the, you know ... all of the swearing.

Music and Concerts |
Column: Kids like to swear. Do I blame Olivia Rodrigo? Or do I blame myself?

May 16, 2024 at 11:08 a.m.

I turned to the parent next to me at the United Center and asked what she was going to do about all the, you know ... all of the swearing.

Fifty years after forming, Devo has never broken into laughter at its own satire. At least not on stage. They remain a dystopic mirror of pop pretense, still play their gloriously disrespectful cover of the Rolling Stones’ “Satisfaction.”

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Column: Devo in concert in Chicago: At 50, no signs of de-evolution

May 13, 2024 at 9:14 a.m.

Fifty years after forming, Devo has never broken into laughter at its own satire. At least not on stage. They remain a dystopic mirror of pop pretense, still play their...

He was vintage Gen-X sarcastic, ironic, contrarian, principled. He was the record store owner who frowns at what you bring to his cash register.

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In memoriam: As a ’90s producer and music tastemaker, Steve Albini was brutally honest — and usually right

May 10, 2024 at 10:20 a.m.

He was vintage Gen-X sarcastic, ironic, contrarian, principled. He was the record store owner who frowns at what you bring to his cash register.

Eig said he was home alone in Lakeview when he heard the announcement. “It’s kind of hard to top the year I just had."

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Chicago author Jonathan Eig wins Pulitzer Prize for his groundbreaking biography of Martin Luther King, Jr.

May 6, 2024 at 4:34 p.m.

Eig said he was home alone in Lakeview when he heard the announcement. “It’s kind of hard to top the year I just had."

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