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This dates me, but I first saw Mitch Easter when his band, Let’s Active, was opening for R.E.M. in the fall of 1983 on my college campus....

Two women were seated next to each other at separate tables along a banquette. A food runner delivered what appeared to be a fried...

Elvis Costello and Spoon have released new songs over the past couple of days, and both boast a throwback rock energy. The new Elvis...

Sitting in the Symphony Center lower balcony on the evening of Sept. 23 was a surprisingly emotional experience for me and, I assume,...

Movie casting remains a popular spectator sport, as evidenced by the reaction to Deadline's report yesterday that Brendan Fraser will...

A couple walks into a meeting with a man who seduces the wife, much to the husband’s chagrin. Is this an original idea or a standard...

War is one of those bands that I always liked more than I knew. I’d enjoyed the sing-along choruses and laugh-along verses of “Why Can’t...

I’d never seen my head so big. That wasn’t my main takeaway from the Chicago International Film Festival world premiere of Rebecca...

Kathy Valentine and the Go-Go’s made me do something I didn’t want to do. I think the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame, as a concept, is stupid....

Forty years passed between the release of Glenn Miller’s “In the Mood” and that of the Clash’s “London Calling.” Forty years also will...

I made the reservations Monday on Resy for a late-summer Sunday brunch at 12:15 p.m. on the patio. There would be four of us, two coming...

1. The reason viewers are exerting so much effort to analyze Ted Lasso is that the Apple TV+ show has done a remarkable job of making us...

"Rock and Roll" vs. "Rock & Roll" vs. "Rock 'n' Roll." Discuss.

Anyone who knows me knows I’m a huge Beatles fan, but I went nuts for them in retrospect, imagining what it would have been like to hear,...

Years ago I was in a novel-writing workshop in which the professor counseled us to follow our characters to their natural destinations...

My high-school age daughter enjoys asking me, “What did you like to do when you were my age?” “I’d go in my room and listen to records,”...

“Chicago singer and songwriter R. Kelly used his position of fame and influence as a pop superstar to meet girls as young as 15 and have...

Casting Hudson as Franklin is a no-brainer, but can she make you think she’s Aretha Franklin while reminding you that she’s Jennifer Hudson?