Among all the local tv personalities for kids in the 1960s, Ray Rayner stands out as genuine, warm and truly creative.

The 1960s saw a worldwide cultural revolution on multiple fronts, including film, fashion, and music. This, of course, extended to the television medium, which saw its own groundbreaking upheaval ...

Behind Diana Dionisio’s desk at WGN-TV, is a portrait of Bozo the Clown. Bozo appears to be supervising Dionisio, WGN-TV’s director of sponsorship solutions. It’s a fancy title that doesn’t quite ...

Travis Scott’s CIRCUS MAXIMUS WORLD TOUR is the highest-grossing and best-selling solo rap tour in history, having sold over 2.2 million tickets The tour spanned six continents and over 80 shows, with ...

EVANSVILLE — The Hadi Shrine Circus kicks off its time in Evansville on Thanksgiving night. Tickets are now on sale for the four-day stay which starts with a 5 p.m. show Nov. 27. Here's what to know.

I'm a full-time circus performer and often live on the road. There's very little work-life balance when you essentially sleep at work. I'm planning my wedding for 2026, and I have to do so in between ...

Alexander Calder, Calder's Circus, detail of ringmaster (1926–31); Whitney Museum of American Art, New York (© 2025 Calder Foundation, New York / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York, photograph Ron ...

In 1925, Alexander Calder joined the circus—in a sense. As an illustrator for the National Police Gazette, he was dispatched to cover the Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus at New York’s ...

I’m such a sucker for Silver Apples, and it still blows my mind that so few people know who they were. This outfit was only of the very first rock bands to utilize synthesizers in their music, and ...

Nexstar Media, the Dallas-based TV station owner at the center of the high-profile controversy over the preemption of Jimmy Kimmel’s late-night ABC show, may finally be realizing the potential of ...

“I’d love to kill you sometime,” murmurs a character in “One of Us,” all but announcing the quiet, matter-of-fact evil that will drive him to pursue the book’s protagonists over the next 200 pages.

Here’s a look back at what happened in the Chicago area on Sept. 11, according to the Tribune’s archives. Is an important event missing from this date? Email us. Judge John Caverly, from left, Nathan ...