The Arts & Culture Section of the Chicago Journal.
Crime
The Chicago production on FX’s revival of "Justified: City Primeval" has been halted after two cars engaged in a rolling gun battle broke through the production's barricades early Thursday morning. A 19-year-old female not involved in the production was wounded.
Arts
It's the former first lady's first entirely new work since 2018's "Becoming," which has sold more than 17 million copies worldwide, surpassing the sales of any memoir by a previous first lady or modern president, including her husband, former President Barack Obama.
Blackhawks
Olczyk is expected to work Seattle Kraken games next season, joining the team his brother Ricky works for as an assistant general manager. He also does national broadcasts for TNT and has become one of the leading hockey voices in the U.S. after playing more than 1,000 NHL games.
Music
Billy Corgan of The Smashing Pumpkins, a 20-year resident of Highland Park, will perform a charity livestream show on July 27 to benefit the victims of the Fourth of July parade shooting in suburban Chicago that killed seven people and wounded more than 30.
Arts
In a message, he asked of his longtime listeners only one thing: "Afford me the kindness you have always shown me."
Music
In the twilight of his music directorship of the CSO, Riccardo Muti candidly outlined his legacy and implored musicians to remember his instruction on Giuseppe Verdi’s operas: use the 19th century scores without altered notes and reject modern directorial concepts.
Music
In advance of his sentencing later this month, prosecutors said in a memo filed Wednesday that R. Kelly deserves 25 years in prison. Kelly’s lawyers have argued that he deserves only a maximum of about 17 years in prison under federal sentencing guidelines.
Chicago Business
The publication was on track to be sold to the new nonprofit last year until the November printing of defense attorney Leonard Goodman’s column headlined “Vaxxing our kids" prompted allegations of misinformation and censorship.
Music
You may recall that some...stuff...happened in our fair city and Jussie does indeed address it in the new song. He is currently out of jail pending appeal in his case, released just three weeks ago.
Theater
“MJ,” packed with dozens of songs by the King of Pop and others kicks off in Chicago at the Nederlander Theatre on July 15, 2023 and is scheduled to run through September 10, 2023.
Arts
Chicago Tribune investigative reporter Ray Long's soon to be released book, The House That Madigan Built, is not a biography of former Illinois House Speaker Michael Madigan, but a series of vignettes marking highs and lows of a remarkable political timeline.
Arts
Beginning April 1, Chess Records will be open for tours Tuesdays through Saturdays at noon, 1, 2 and 3 p.m. $15 suggested donation.