Devin Rose

I wrote an item a few weeks ago about how cabbies are often misunderstood. Soon afterward, I left my wallet in a cab--and the cab driver returned it to my...

You'd think a guy who gets onstage and sings Neil Diamond songs might look like the spangled, hip-swiveling star. Denny Diamond doesn't--but he'll still make you sing like a guitar...

Make of this what you will: On a recent walk with my 10-year-old greyhound, Earl, I stopped to grab a copy of Red Streak, competitor of RedEye, the Trib's new...

Altoids are so yesterday! Instead, kids are getting fresh by chomping on peach Smints. "They're good, but it's all just a big trend," said Conor Camp, 12, of Chicago. "It's...

We're fascinated by the idea of a woman considering it a good career move to pose nekkid but for a guitar over her privates. So we headed to a downtown...

Yeah, we've all dissed 'em. But a cabdriver who sped us to work one day last week had something to get off his chest: Chicago cabbies are misunderstood, he said....

Jim Young, the Libertarian candidate for a state House seat in McHenry County, recently issued a press release attacking his Republican opponent, state Rep. Rosemary Kurtz, for "one of the...

After walking past musicians strumming guitars and singing at coffee shops dozens of times, we stopped to talk to one at a Starbucks on Sheridan Road. Gregory James Spence, 25,...

Seeing three 20-somethings, two women and a guy, huddled close in urgent discussion near the Sheridan "L" stop, we snuck closer. World politics on their minds? Career goals, maybe? Listen...

Besides the agony of da feet and other body parts, runners were pumped and proud after the Chicago marathon. Here's what some said days later: Tim McCaughey, 44, Springfield (first...