Chicago blues great Billy Branch says a concert in Grant Park got him hooked on the music many decades ago. His latest album ...

When recent Tulane University grad Ishaan Pomichter was taking a digital technology class taught by famed biographer and writer Walter Isaacson last year, the young tech devotee decided to curate a ...

Walter Benjamin’s life, to use the kind of metaphor he was so fond of, was not unlike the Parisian arcades, those covered retail passages that he loved so much. He was born into a world with the finer ...

Tommaso Cioni gained attention in Nancy Guthrie's kidnapping when independent journalist Ashleigh Banfield reported he was a ...

In honor of this game-changing and often-forgotten moment in history, get to know some of the Harlem Renaissance pioneers you ...

The key for Trump is not only keeping MAGA support high, but making sure his supporters show up at the polls on Nov. 3 to ...

"Crucible," written by director John Sayles, delves into the social, political unrest fueled by automaker Henry Ford's impact ...

When I was growing up in the ’60s in California, Presidents Day wasn’t a thing – though we did honor our two greatest presidents. Feb. 12 was celebrated as Abraham Lincoln’s birthday. Ten days later, ...

Duvall began acting in the theater in the 1950s, pursued a career in television in the 1960s and achieved his greatest prominence in films in the 1970s and beyond.

Walk into any bookshop today and you’ll be surprised by the number of books about trees. Publishers tell us too that anything about trees will sell its socks off. It make sense – especially in a city ...

Conservatives have often accused socialism of being a materialistic and spiritless philosophy. The most popular version of the charge is that socialists focus on making a happier world for all because ...