Barbara Mahany

ZOKA ZOLA Architect Zoka Zola Architecture + Urban Design What's new: Zola's sublime exercise in energy efficiency, her East Village home/office, is now counted among 45 modernist icons in Kenneth...

1. PULL UP HERE We might never get up from this writer's dream of a desk, where all sorts of love notes could be tucked in the cubbies and drawers...

In the end, they ditched the guy-in-the-gorilla-suit concept. Same with the cloak of darkness. Instead, armed with a slingshot, souped-up lacrosse sticks, a plastic whiffle-ball thrower and six baskets brimming...

You say your mitts are a mess. You say your toes want to curl up and hide. They've had it with the dirt you rake them through, the bits of...

Choking back tears, University of Illinois officials on Thursday announced a new scholarship in honor of Rosa Trevino, who stood by her daughter Lucy's side every day during her six...

TRY IT Even though my colleagues scoffed and called it the "most useless thing" they'd ever seen, I was super-pleased to see Sunbeam's Hot Iron Storage Case in our office....

Not normally given to backward glances, Q felt compelled this month to complete the circle on some of the stories we brought you in 2007. These are the developments we...

TRIBUNE STAFF REPORTER BARBARA MAHANY warned Perspective readers last month against jumping the gun on tomato bingeing. Well, guess what, patient ones? Your reward is in season. With the time...

Holy cow! After our story "Make it a green sweep this spring" [April 15, 2007] on how to green your house's cleaning, we got gobs of e-mails from the newly...

SEE IT: Furniture made out of pencils. Lamps made from old tin containers. Jeweled boxes. If you're looking for artwork and decorative objects that are just outside the mainstream, check...