Fauzia Arain

Tower records is gone. And as of last month, Virgin Megastore is too. So are scores of local independent record shops, slaughtered by the iPod, iTunes, Amazon.com and "big box"...

We know, we know ... if you're going to Lollapalooza, you already have a pretty good idea of what you're going to hear. But maybe you don't, and you need...

In a town bursting with entertainment options, one might be content to stay seated on the receiving end of all the music, comedy and readings going on each week ......

It's not that we don't trust WGN-TV's chief meteorologist Tom Skilling when he promises cooler temps to an overheated Chicago, but once in a while we have to take matters...

What screams Americana in the summertime more than county fairs? Not much, except perhaps apple pie, and we're betting a good number of these upcoming fairs will offer pie baking...

The vibrant bursts of electric color, the haze of post-show smoke -- fireworks are a summertime spectacle in the sky. But without the roaring booms and pops, or the crowd's...

You are so lucky. You get to go to the Driver Services facility on Elston Avenue. And the Vehicle Emissions Testing site in Naperville? We are so jealous. No, we're...

Baby, it's cold outside. I won't deny it. I will, however, object to holing up in my home for days. So I trekked out to brave the bitter cold and...

If you're single and not too repulsed by the pushy Valentine's Day campaigns smeared about town the past few weeks, then we fully support even the loveless among us to...

1 FIRST DATE For someone like me--who can no longer technically be classified as a spring chicken--first dates are less about romance than pure reconnaissance. Forget about boozing it up...