This weekend, the Lollapalooza music festival is taking over downtown Chicago. Hometown hero Chance the Rapper is the headliner tonight. He will be grabbing the spotlight. But on the city's North Side ...

Cats choose, like them, to sit, and like them, shudder. Charles Baudelaire (1821-1867) is one of the most important poets in French literature (he also made a name for himself as a literary and art ...

Goths are typically regarded as being on the fringes of society – members of a subculture which finds beauty in the darker elements of human experience. And while their dress code is much imitated – ...

Owen says she “aimed to turn Baudelaire’s French poems into convincing English poems while keeping as close as I could to the original texts”. She also has tried to approximate Baudelaire’s strictness ...

Homer begins the Iliad invoking the anger of Achilles; Virgil, in the Aeneid, sings of arms and the man; in “Leaves of Grass,” Whitman celebrates himself. And then there is the first verse of the ...

This weekend in Chicago, a small theater troupe with a big resume will present all of the poems in Charles Baudelaire's "Les Fleurs du Mal" — sung by more than 50 performers from around the world.

This weekend in Chicago, a small theater troupe with a big resume will present all of the poems in Charles Baudelaire's "Les Fleurs du Mal" —... Poetry Of Failure Comes To Life At Chicago's ...