Frank James

If Adam Warren has one regret, it`s that he missed standing with the unemployed on the now infamous line at the new Sheraton Hotel. So when he heard that Jay...

Sex in the days following Magic Johnson`s announcement: It`s different. Thursday afternoon, Nov. 7. Johnson-hero and heterosexual-discloses that he is carrying the virus that causes AIDS. Friday night, Nov. 8....

Within two months of D-Day, Allied forces had broken out of their Normandy beachhead and, in August, Paris was liberated. Hitler, though, had been hoarding his forces for one final...

Forty-four stories in the air, the party at Eugenie Terrace was in full swing. It was last Tuesday, the day after April 15. To celebrate the passing of the tax...

A previously unknown work by Vincent van Gogh, the legendary 19th Century Dutch post-impressionist painter, has been found by a part-time worker for a Chicago auction house. The painting, an...

One of Western civilization`s most telling myths is the story of Prometheus, who stole fire from the gods-presumably toasting his fingers in the process of providing mankind with the means...

Many truants and dropouts get started on the wrong road in elementary school. That`s where Maria Mercado comes in. Mercado is a truant officer for the Chopin School on the...

When Hollywood met Cabrini-Green, the line between art and life sometimes got blurry. Cabrini-Green certainly doesn`t need any outside help to pass for a ghetto. But, improbably, the makers of...

When historian Carter G. Woodson in 1926 started what has since become Black History Month, he did it because black America was under fierce attack at the time and in...

Real estate developing on a grand scale is ''hours of boredom separated by moments of sheer terror,'' says J. Paul Beitler. Like when, as he watched construction on PaineWebber Tower...