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Anti-Flag brings punk rock activism to town with latest tour
Punk rock was born out of the need to challenge the status...
Hefner in deal to buy back Playboy
LOS ANGELES — More than a half-century after launching Playboy from his South Side Chicago apartment, Hugh Hefner is buying back the bunny...
Chicago band The Academy Is … shakes up its sound once...
The Academy Is ... isn't afraid of taking chances...
CBS reality competition will likely pit former ‘American Idol’ judge against...
LOS ANGELES — A year after leaving "American Idol," Paula Abdul is returning to the reality competition genre as the lead expert on the upcoming CBS reality competition "Live to Dance...
Fringe with benefits
I have never liked filet mignon. I don’t have much feeling for Armani or Chloe. And I certainly can’t stand Cy Twombly or that dude who covers castles and rivers and whatnot with white sheets...
Streaming cat blues
The bad news: the novel
coronavirus has disrupted life as we know it, and will for the next couple
months. But, you’ve gone to the store,...
Nothing to do with death and dying
Last night I pulled out a favorite album of mine that I had not listened to in some time, Doolittle by Pixies. Within seconds, I was transported to another time, another place. A smile crept across my face, my feet began to tap and a series of memories flooded forth...
The Infamous Stringdusters raise flood relief money for and with The...
To name them by genre, The Infamous Stringdusters are a bluegrass five-piece. But Stringdusters manager Michael Allenby prefers other descriptors. Tongue in cheek, he sometimes calls them a high-country band. But at their core, Allenby says, the Infamous ...
Nigerian author Chinua Achebe, 82, dies in Boston
Chinua Achebe, the Nigerian author often called the father of modern African literature, has passed away in Boston. He was 82...
Affleck actually delivers
The robbers work with a confident, brutal and bracing efficiency. And the same could be said of their director...
Cracking wise
You might call them “culture warriors,” though you won’t find them armed with Bibles and picket signs. They’re not even that angry...














