Allan Johnson

Guys in Chengdu, China, can rent women to get parents off their backs over their single status, according to the Associated Press. Apparently, there are "love agencies" that, for $36...

Maybe you don't want to have much to do with your upcoming wedding because you don't know what you're supposed to do beyond climb into a monkey suit, produce a...

"Everyone has a message. Our lives are our messages." --A quote by Indian philosopher Mohandas Gandhi best describes the life of television journalist Bill Kurtis, Q discovered. "It says be...

You've arrived outside that hot nightclub, and you want in with the beautiful people. What do you do? Follow the expert advice of Allison Melnick, nightclub promoter, event planner and...

"If you deal from scarcity, you think everything that you give out is taking away from you. If you deal from abundance, everything you give out will be given back...

The "outside" Josh Romph now matches the "inside" Josh Romph. Romph is the 24-year-old Niles resident and unit secretary at Lutheran General Hospital who won Chicago's Esteem Makeover contest, a...

The 25 or 30 members of the Chicago GI Joe Collectors Club don't sit around the Schaumburg Library once a month playing with their dolls. "It's an action figure, not...

"Yeeeaaahhh!" Kevin Abercrombie said that after completing the Ironman Triathlon World Championship in Hawaii last month. "I've never been that excited in my life, coming down that stretch," said Abercrombie,...

The timid will find a wealth of information on interacting with others in "The Shy Single: A Bold Guide to Dating for the Less-Than-Bold Dater" (Rodale, $14.95), which virtually holds...

"I'm one of three recognized masters in the Western Hemisphere in `Death Touch,' " said martial artist Tom Cameron. Get out. Does that mean you can punch someone once and...