Allan Johnson

Harry Teinowitz's kid is now 4 years old. And like any other doting dad, he wonders if he has ever done enough. "I feel like, `Have I dressed him, sent...

What kind of bizarro place is this? Some guy has his head stuck on top of puppet bodies!! No, these aren't some mutants. It's "Nickelodeon Weinerville," the half-hour puppet/cartoon clips...

Anna Paquin doesn't have to worry about getting a part in her school play. After all, what teacher wouldn't want an Academy Award winner in the class production of "The...

"You can actually go to the sixth floor of the Schoolbook Depository (in Dallas). It's a museum called the Assassination Museum . . . they have the window set up...

Twins can be confusing. Take the Mowry sisters: Fifteen-year-olds Tia and Tamera Mowry star in "Sister, Sister," an ABC comedy that premieres April 1. The sisters play 14-year-old identical twins...

Chicago can be counted as one of the first places that allowed Jason Stuart to decide whether coming out of the closet on stage was a good thing. Stuart and...

What's so funny about being Jewish? The laws of kashrut, or making food kosher, for starters, according to Caryn Bark. "One of the laws is that (food) has to have...

The Grammys - like the Oscars - are really just a fun excuse to argue about how awards shows are stupid and the best stuff never wins. After all, how...

All it took was one performance at a Washington, D.C., comedy club to hook Tom Rhodes. Rhodes caught his uncle Bob Ryan in performance at the time. "My dad took...

Because reading can be funny-damental, we report on two new comedy tomes that are out, both of which, for different reasons, are drawing on rich traditions. In Chicago, it's sometimes...