House gives final approval to Trump’s $9 billion cut to public broadcasting and foreign aid
The House gave final approval to President Donald Trump’s request to claw back about $9 billion for public broadcasting and foreign aid.
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Featured
What if you could see inside machines? ‘Art of X-rays’ opens at the Griffin MSI
Photographer Andrei Duman uses X-rays to create the images in "Beyond the Surface." The objects...
Review: ‘To a Land Unknown’ at Facets is an absorbing refugee crisis drama
Danish-Palestinian Mahdi Fleifel's debut feature asks, How can the political not be personal?
Arts
In spite of federal cuts, Chicago arts organizations press on
Local arts programs have to cut back on their programming or resulted to fundraising drives to counteract the steep federal cuts made to art programs by the Trump administration.
Books
Biblioracle: Yiyun Li writes about life after her sons’ suicides in ‘Things in Nature Merely Grow’
"Things in Nature Merely Grow" is about what Yiyun Li calls life inside an “abyss,” the abyss marked by the deaths of her children.
Movies
‘Eddington’ review: Joaquin Phoenix and Pedro Pascal, once upon an early COVID time in the West
Joaquin Phoenix, Pedro Pascal and Emma Stone take on early 2020 pandemic crises of every sort in Ari Aster's "Eddington."
TV and Streaming
Stephen Colbert’s ‘Late Show’ will end in May 2026 after being canceled by CBS
Stephen Colbert tells studio audience CBS is canceling 'The Late Show,' to end in May 2026.
Theater
5 new comedy clubs to know in the Chicago area
Get your maps out, order your two-drink minimum and chart a course with us across these new homes for improv and stand-up comedy.
Music and Concerts
Review: Grant Park Music Festival is lifted by an artist-in-residence and a poignant ‘Enigma Variations’
Cellist Inbal Segev’s residency with the Grant Park Music Festival concluded on Wednesday. Also, a note about Monday night.
Home and Garden
For a tree under stress, lecanium scale can be unwelcome guest
Lecanium scale attach themselves to the leaves and twigs of trees and feed on plant nutrients, causing significant damage.
Fashion
Ferris Bueller’s iconic vest goes up for auction 40 years after famously skipping school
Forty years after cameras first rolled, an iconic piece of the film’s wardrobe is jumping off the screen and into one lucky fan’s closet.
Museums
‘Reptiles Alive!’ is now open at the Field Museum, changing the way you look at snakes, lizards and even birds
Legless lizards, anyone? Breaking down assumptions about reptiles has been the life’s work of associate curator Sara Ruane.
Restaurants, Food and Drink
Restaurant review: Mahari, a neighborhood home with the cuisine of the African diaspora in Hyde Park
Mahari brings not just the vibrant cuisines of the African diaspora to Chicago, but chefs tracing their cultures and blazing their own paths.
Recipes
Today in History: Coca-Cola first sold
On May 8, 1886, the first serving of Coca-Cola, which contained cocaine, was sold at a pharmacy in Atlanta, Georgia. (The drink became fully cocaine-free in 1929.)
Travel
Want to take a dip in Paris? River Seine reopens to public swimming for the 1st time in a century.
For the first time in over a century, Parisians and tourists will be able to take a refreshing dip in the River Seine.