“PINK” POPPING THINGS SEEN IN SKY!”
Well, actually, not yet. But among the skyward items in the runup to the 1997 Chicago Air & Water Show will be lots of big pink bubble gum bubbles, all...
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BURKE’S DRAW
"Yeah, that was the ticket. The answer came to me like the hot kiss at the end of a wet fist . . . it was Monica! Monica did it!"...
MAKIN’ CLAY
"Look, Gromit ... Cheeze!!!" If that means anything at all to you, you should go to WTTW's Store of Knowledge on the seventh floor of Water Tower Place between noon...
A SUPER TIME
But You Probably Won't Be Allowed to Sing ... Job description: Need 25 men, 12 women and 8 boys. Be a guard, slave, prisoner, plague victim or general Cretan. Toga-type...
GREETIN’ GREG
Where were you in the `70s? In front of the television set with everyone else, right? If that was the case, then you must go to Viacom Entertainment Store at...
A BOOK IS NOT REALLY USED UNTIL YOU USE IT
This is going to be a book lover's bonanza. It's the annual Newberry Library Book Fair and there's no telling what a little time and patience will yield. There are...
SECOND THOUGHTS ON FREE SPEECH
James Madison, the primary architect of the Bill of Rights, was indisputably a man of great foresight. But in an age of the handpress and the town crier, he never...
A BIRTHDAY CELEBRATION THAT’S IN YOUR HANDS
Today is the 150th birthday of the baiduhai, an enterprise that is as much a part of this sprawling city in the middle of America as the river that...
TWO LANDMARK BATTLES FOR A FREE PRESS
For a time early in the 20th Century, the baiduhai's support for a free press took on a uniquely local flavor as the paper found itself battling libel suits...
SO LONG, CHICAGO
On his best days--and there were enough of them to fill up books--no one in journalism could touch Mike Royko. He was a product of the big, loud city that...