Less than a week after the negatively received season opening at New York's Metropolitan Opera, Lyric Opera of Chicago opened its own 2009-10 season Saturday night with the same opera, Puccini's "Tosca," and drew only cheers and applause. To be ...
CHICAGO—Hundreds of mourners turned out Thursday at a music-filled wake and memorial service for Chicago blues icon Koko Taylor, whose regal bearing and powerful voice earned her the nickname "Queen of the Blues." Among those who paid tribute to Taylor ...
CHICAGO—Light, bright and definitely pricey -- the Modern Wing at the Art Institute of Chicago is a triumph for Pritzker Prize-winning architect Renzo Piano. In a single stroke, the 264,000-square-foot wing, which opens Saturday, turns Chicago's art ...
CHICAGO Nearly 182 years after Beethoven's death, three musicians are getting ready to give the first known performance of a lost piano trio by the immortal composer. The 12-minute piece of the trio in E flat will be performed Sunday, along with the ...
CHICAGO (AP) -- Nearly 182 years after Beethoven's death, three musicians are getting ready to give the first known performance of a lost piano trio by the immortal composer. The 12-minute piece of the trio in E flat will be performed Sunday, along ...
CHICAGO—For someone who was written off as passe long before he died in 1953, Eugene O'Neill still has an uncanny ability to grab headlines and spark debate among theater critics. Robert Falls -- artistic director of Chicago's Goodman Theatre, and ...
A little more than a century ago, Chicago boasted 11 daily English-language newspapers. The fierce competition among them, immortalized in the 1928 play "The Front Page," even turned bloody at times, and that drive to outdo one another led to 35 ...
CHICAGO — A little more than a century ago, Chicago boasted 11 daily English-language newspapers. The fierce competition among them, immortalized in the 1928 play "The Front Page," even turned bloody at times, and that drive to outdo one another led ...
The fierce competition among them, immortalized in the 1928 play "The Front Page," even turned bloody at times, and that drive to outdo one another led to 35 Pulitzer Prizes, journalism's highest honor. Today, only two major dailies remain in this city ...
Gerald and Irene Andreoli, survivors of the fire, visit Queen of Heaven cemetery in Hillside, Ill., where 25 classmates are buried. (M. Spencer Green, The Associated Press ) CHICAGO — Seven-year-old Dan Taglia heard the fire-alarm bell from his ...
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