Allan Johnson

Double takes probably come naturally to Chicago's Dan Colla. With his shoulder-length blond hair and angular, handsome face with piercing eyes, he's the spitting image of romance-book cover boy Fabio....

You don't have to be playing with a full deck to know poker has become popular. If you're thinking about taking up the game, then you'd better possess three attributes....

It's not so remarkable that Details magazine has a top-50 list of "powerful men" in its current issue. Many mags come up with such rankings. Nor is it all that...

The LaSalle Bank Chicago Marathon might seem like a snore-fest to Kevin Abercrombie. As a triathlete, he'll run, bike and swim all in the same race. But even this Chicagoan,...

You probably know some of the classic jokes of Rodney Dangerfield, who passed away on Tuesday at age 82 ("I looked up my family tree and found out I was...

Friday's scheduled performance by Oscar-winning actress and comedian Whoopi Goldberg at the Chicago Theatre has been canceled. There was no reason given for scrapping the stand-up comedy show by Goldberg,...

In the 1985 movie "The Goonies," about a group of kids searching for buried treasure, one of the characters was this huge, pointy-headed dude nicknamed Sloth. That was also Joshua...

HE'S FANNING THE FLAMES OF BURNING DESIRE "If nothing changes, nothing changes." --Actor-turned-firefighter-turned-actor Jack McGee warns Q of the consequences of lacking the courage to make the necessary adjustments in...

The surface lesson of Lawrence LaRose's house-renovation/relationship memoir "Gutted: Down to the Studs in My House, My Marriage, My Entire Life" (Bloomsbury, $24.95) is to pay someone to work on...

There are only a few big-name acts gracing the stages this fall, but those coming in are choice selections, some of whom haven't played the area in years. BOBBY SLAYTON:...