Like ants attacking a piece of chocolate cake during a summer’s picnic, the machines with giant iron claws have made fast work of Oprah Winfrey’s Harpo Studios on Chicago’s Near West Side; and with its demise goes a landmark of…

For a city that favors the fine arts over the popular arts and endowed institutions over commercial producers, Lake FX 2016, sponsored by the City’s Department of Cultural Affairs and Special Events, was a positive development. The target of this…

  New City, the small twice monthly free zine, published an interview with the new director of the Art Institute of Chicago as its lead article in the March 1-15 edition. The visual arts’ community in Chicago gets little attention…

    When WGN recently placed its North side studios up for sale following rumors that venerable Trib Tower was for sale by Tribune Media, it was a clear harbinger of the pending demise of Chicago-based Tribune Media, the fossil…

  Chicago’s cultural economy just became a little smaller with the loss of the Jazz Record Mart. As reported in all of Chicago’s mainstream media. The owner, Bob Koester, has sold his record inventory, his brand name and website to…

  With the recent announcement that the producers of the Chicago-based Steve Harvey Show are contemplating a move out of Chicago, the Chicago Tribune recently ran an article in their Sunday entertainment section (January 24,) chronicling Chicago’s history in the…

Chicago-based The Onion has been sold to Univision an entertainment conglomerate based in New York. Chicagoans probably first discovered the Onion back in the 1990’s distributed free near train stations with headlines such as “Oprah fans await further instructions.” Univision…

The Third Coast Review   The new year, 2016, has brought Chicago a new digital literary magazine, or blog: the Third Coast Review. Literary magazines that offer commentary and reviews of the popular arts are critical to the health of…