Allan Johnson

"Just watching the joy she had performing, and then watching when it was taken away from her, I thought, I don't ever want . . . anyone [to] get in...

Losing almost 5 1/2 pounds in 25 days may not sound like much to some, but it's the little things accompanying the drop that count to Mark Stach. "Probably the...

"Since work makes up such a big part of life, I hope for [people's] sake that their `work' isn't work but a passion and something that, if they didn't do,...

"Guys have periods, too," my wife once told me. I thought she was yanking my chain, as she usually does--with much success--until I saw an episode of Fox's animated series...

There's a cozy, homespun feel to Cafe Colao in Chicago's Humboldt Park neighborhood, with the restaurant's intimate seating for 22, work from Puerto Rican artists on its walls and in...

Rich Melluzzo doesn't get this "kindergarten for men" nonsense. That is what a bar in Hamburg, Germany, is calling itself, where women drop their guys off to engage in games,...

STAYING IN. This year will be like every year. I'll be in my hometown. It will have snowed. My large family will gather at my cousin's house, on Main Street....

"I try to just be me. And as easy and as trite as that sounds, if you really think about it, it's pretty hard to be just the person that...

"My doctor was actually making fun of me," Mark Stach of Chicago said of his last checkup. "He was actually questioning whether or not he wanted to have some hormone...

The diagnosis of Robert De Niro with prostate cancer several weeks ago reminded me how I'm past due for a checkup, especially since the actor's condition "was detected at an...