Allan Johnson

Fiesta del Sol, the oldest and largest Mexican neighborhood festival in the U.S., continues through Sunday on Blue Island Avenue from 18th Street to Cermak Road. This eclectic Pilsen festival...

Matthew Fox of TV's "Party of Five" got a super-early Christmas present. His show, about five young brothers and sisters living together after the death of their parents (Matthew plays...

`For me to think about quitting comedy," Jeff Garlin was saying, "is an amazing thing." No kidding. Garlin, who got his start in Chicago 13 years ago, has always been...

"HIStory" won't be made with Michael Jackson's "HIStory: Past, Present and Future-Book I." A lot of the 15 new songs (there are also 15 greatest hits) sound mean, angry and...

Don't feel too bad for Richard Jeni and the cancellation of his "Platypus Man" comedy series on the UPN television network. He learned a valuable lesson: "In the Hollywood hierarchy...

Jimmy Dore: Hometown boy makes a triumphant return! Yeah, whatever. Dore, a native of Chicago's Southwest Side ("the kind of neighborhood where people work 12 hours a day, hate their...

`Chicago's very own team-comedy champions return for their FINAL Chicagoland appearance . . . EVER!" That's the advertisement for Blue Velveeta, the improvisation group that camped out at the Improv...

Here's a sure sign the new movie "Casper" works: The special effects are so fun to watch that you don't spend a lot of time trying to see how they...

How's this for playing popular characters? Christopher Daniel Barnes has found success playing Greg Brady in "The Brady Bunch Movie," and as the voice of Peter Parker/Spider-Man on Fox-TV's hit...

You know how you tell you're in the presence of a comic? Look for these telltale signs: - Someone standing in the back of a club looking intently at the...