Hugh Hart

Jim Peterik isn`t the only successful rocker to make his home in the southwest suburbs. Palos Hills resident Gary Loizzo has produced a slew of gold records-including four Styx albums...

Used to be that men picked out their aftershave by splashing a little on their wrists and taking a whiff. Yes, life was simpler in those good ol` days. Now,...

''Women who wear these beads have met their husbands, boyfriends; they`re like magnets for men.'' So says Sarah Beth Busta about her retro-hippie, 7-foot-long bead strands. If Busta`s glittering strings...

Cher, Elvis, even Woody Allen all have their impersonators, so why not Mr. Potato Head? To celebrate the toy`s 40th birthday, Marty Larkin, aka the Rock `n` Roll Chef, hosted...

They`ve been mistaken for a self-help group of disenchanted divorcees and former girlfriends of Gulf War soldiers. But what THE X-GIRLFRIENDS really like to do is create public art that...

Kimosha Murphy has been performing West African dance since she was 10, but it wasn`t until her first visit to Senegal two years ago that she fully appreciated the roots...

Check it out: Armani shirt was $135, now $28. San Remo suit was $800, now $165. Perry Ellis sport jacket was $165, now $34. On and on it goes at...

St. Patrick`s Day will be celebrated on or before Tuesday at a number of area venues. On Tuesday, Jamie O`Reilly and the Rogues will sing Irish ditties from their new...

The amazing thing about Fern Simon`s Arts 220 store is that it looks so unified-no mean accomplishment, considering what`s in the display window: a fiber glass chair made for Herman...

He was French at heart, he was romantic, and he threw one heck of a party, so where better to celebrate Rossini`s 200th birthday than Maxim`s, the long-shuttered restaurant whose...