As we approach the end of 2024, the critics and columnists of A+E reflect on the year to highlight some people who have made a difference in the city’s arts.
Chicagoans of the Year in the Arts: All our names for 2024
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Best of 2024: TV, movies, live music, theater and much more around Chicago
With 2024 coming to a close, the A&E staff take a look back at their favorites from the year, from the stage performances that captivated us to the books that kept us turning the page.
Chicagoans of the Year in the Arts: All our names for 2024
As we approach the end of 2023, the critics and columnists of A+E reflect on the year to highlight some people who have made a difference in the city’s arts.
Biblioracle: My 2024 Biblioracle Book Awards for fiction, the first half
A round-up of the best fiction from 2024 that the Biblioracle has previously covered.
Chicagoans of the Year in Books: Javier and Kristin Ramirez of Exile in Bookville are getting good energy back in volumes
What they built on Michigan Avenue feels like a cool secret. And that, in fact, was the idea. They opened a store that, three years later, is part of the Chicago book community and the indie music ecosystem.
Popeye and Tintin enter the public domain in 2025 along with novels from William Faulkner and Ernest Hemingway
This year’s crop of newly public artistic creations lacks the landmark vibes of last year’s entrance of Mickey Mouse into the public domain. But they include a deep well of canonical works whose 95-year copyright maximums will expire. And the Disney icon’s public domain presence expands.
Michigan library says Chicago man can keep overdue book — 50 years later
Fifty years later, a man who grew up in suburban Detroit tried to return a very overdue baseball book to his boyhood library.
Detroit-area library says Chicago man can keep overdue baseball book — 50 years later
Fifty years later, a man who grew up in suburban Detroit tried to return a very overdue baseball book to his boyhood library.
Best of 2024: TV, movies, live music, theater and much more around Chicago
With 2024 coming to a close, the A&E staff take a look back at their favorites from the year, from the stage performances that captivated us to the books that kept us turning the page.
Biblioracle: The 2024 nonfiction Biblioracle Book Awards
The first installment of the Biblioracle Book Awards looks at nonfiction, with six standouts that will help you make sense of the world.