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Cultural Connections

Cultural Connections: Lyric Opera's Macbeth

Eddie Arruza talks to noted Shakespearean director Barbara Gaines about her operatic directorial debut at Lyric Opera.

• Macbeth at Lyric Opera

Politics

News Analysis: Political Roundtable

We're roughly five weeks away from the elections, and a recent poll shows the race for Senate is in a dead heat. Elizabeth Brackett and her panel discuss the close race, the latest on the gubernatorial race and much more.

Hedy Weiss: Theater Reviews

Hedy Weiss Theater Reviews

Hedy Weiss reviews the much-anticipated revival of Candide at the Goodman Theatre, plus three more shows from this busy fall theater season.

• Candide--Goodman Theatre
• She Loves Me--Writers' Theatre
• David Mamet plays--American Theater Company
• Romeo and Juliet--Chicago Shakespeare Theater

Arts & Entertainment

Alan Page

From the football field to the bench. We talk to a former Bear Hall of Famer turned Minnesota Supreme Court Justice. He's the subject of the new book All Rise: The Remarkable Journey of Alan Page.

Politics

Terrorism

What is terrorism? How has the so-called threat shifted since the attacks of 9/11, and how much should we know? We sit down with the head of the FBI's Chicago office and the Director of the Combating Terrorism Center at West Point for those answers and to hear about a new nationwide terrorism training program.

• Combating Terrorism Center
• Federal Bureau of Investigation Chicago

Politics

Mayor Daley

Phil Ponce goes one-on-one with Mayor Daley, who talks about the fallout from his decision not to run for another term and the upcoming mayoral election, and reflects on his time in office.

Arts & Entertainment

The Tenth Inning

Acclaimed documentarian Ken Burns discusses his latest work, The Tenth Inning, which, among other things, takes a swing at baseball and steroids.

• More on The Tenth Inning

Big Cat and the Bears

Bears Alumni Club

The Bears beat the Green Bay Packers in the last seconds of Monday Night Football. Glen Kozlowski joins us on the Bears Alumni Club to dissect the exciting game.

Terra Foundation Artbeat Special

Gregory Orloff | Terra Foundation Artbeat Special

We take a look at provocative artwork from Gregory Orloff, a rediscovered Chicago artist from the 1930s.

• Koehnline Museum of Art at Oakton Community College
• Orloff at the Smithsonian American Art Museum