Alexia Elejalde-Ruiz

Rich Seng came to Chicago hoping to find fame and fortune producing free rock compilation CDs. It didn't happen quite as he planned, and in a strange twist of events,...

Holiday party season is a minefield of potentially awkward encounters, from the anxiety of striking up conversation with strangers to the dread of getting trapped in said conversation. But parties...

How time flies when you put off your Christmas shopping. Before you know it, shipping deadlines have passed and you still haven't decided what to get, um, anyone on your...

On her last night at the hospital after undergoing a series of spine surgeries, Susan Mandel lay in bed listening to Pachelbel's Canon in D. For days, Mandel's positive attitude...

Five years ago, as the nation watched Terri Schiavo's husband and parents battle over whether to remove the Florida woman's feeding tube 15 years after she fell into a persistent...

With twinkling Christmas lights, jingling sleigh bells and chestnuts roasting on open fires — not to mention inescapable holiday jewelry commercials hawking diamond rings — it's no wonder December reigns...

With twinkling Christmas lights, jingling sleigh bells and chestnuts roasting on open fires — not to mention inescapable holiday jewelry commercials hawking diamond rings — it's no wonder December reigns...

Shortly after I turned 30, a concerned aesthetician at a department store makeup counter warned that lest I look forward to crow's-feet, dark circles and unsightly puffiness, I'd better start...

Monique Meloche, owner of Monique Meloche art gallery Favorite gift: Porcelain vases modeled after Clorox bottles, designed by The Glamour Preservation Society Why: "These porcelain vases are both ironic and...