Brenda Butler

Event: Collaboraction's "To Kill a Mockingbird" opening-night party and five-year anniversary fundraiser, at the theater company's West Loop studio in Chicago. Enter: Collaboraction is the "edgy" theater troupe whose goal...

Event: The Flower Firm's five-year anniversary party at Union Station, Chicago--specifically, in the little-used luggage room, which was transformed via wallpaper and furniture into the clubby decor of the Sands...

LAST GOOD MOVIE YOU SAW: "Heist." I love David Mamet. He has cornered the market for mess-with-your-mind movies. CDs YOU'RE LISTENING TO: I've got to say I'm really feeling Michael...

How do you describe yourself? I like to say that I'm the biggest Cubs fan in the whole universe. How did this come about? It started when I was very...

Ivy climbs the south wall of this 10-room Victorian house at 1103 N. Hoyne Ave. at the western edge of the Ukrainian Village neighborhood. The building, constructed in 1895, takes...

From the two-story penthouse and its deck atop this 74-year-old Art Deco condominium building at 707 W. Junior Ter., you can see Evanston to the north, O'Hare International Airport to...

Event: The 20th anniversary celebration of the G.R. N'Namdi Gallery, Chicago. Roots: The gallery, which has showcased works of such revered artists as Jacob Lawrence, Edward Clark and Vicente Pimentel,...

Jordan, a former adviser to President Bill Clinton, was recently in town to promote his memoir, "Vernon Can Read!" You're known as a private person. What made you decide to...

LAST GOOD MOVIE YOU SAW: "The Man Who Wasn't There," because it's in black and white, like a real movie. The Coen brothers are on the list of people whose...

Event: Inaugural benefit for Steppenwolf Theatre Company's Auxiliary Council, at the W Chicago Lakeshore hotel. What's up with that? The 1 1/2-year-old council was formed to bring new money and...