A BOHEMIAN RHAPSODY IN ELGIN
The Elgin Symphony Orchestra stages its third Classics Concert this weekend with a program devoted to music inspired by traditional Bohemian culture. ''The Moldau'' by Bedrich Smetana, Concerto No. 1...
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A WEDDING THAT WILL GO DOWN IN HISTORY
Merv was there. So was Eva, and WBBM-TV honcho Johnathan Rodgers showed up, too. But the celeb getting the most attention at Elaine Tack`s recent wedding was Abraham Lincoln, or...
A 31-DAY GAP
This could be the start of something beautiful for time-stressed people: an annual calendar that begins in February. This procrastinator`s delight is the brainchild of Judy Plackie, director of sales...
IT`S ALL RELATIVE
If you think you have a weird family, meet Pat McCurdy`s cousin Maurice: ''He went to France and fell in love with a bowling pin.'' Then there`s Aunt Edwina, the...
VINYL FLASHBACKS
One casualty of the vinyl LP`s dinosaur status is the absence of record jackets that used to add such a marvelous visual dimension to a band`s artistic statement. It`s just...
LUNCH WITH JOE AND PHIL AND TED AND …
At one end of the long table at The Saloon, 200 E. Chestnut St., sat Smashing Pumpkins manager Joe Shannahan in a black turtleneck; at the other, personal injury trial...
Archive: Second City’s ‘Ku Klux Klambake,’ with Stephen Colbert
This story was originally published in the Tribune on January 16, 1992. What the audiences see at Second City Northwest's new revue, "Ku Klux Klambake," playing at the Continental Towers...
DANCE GROUP TO STAGE EXCERPTS FROM `NUTCRACKER`
Judith Svalander`s Dance Theatre presents its annual holiday program featuring excerpts from ''The Nutcracker Suite'' this weekend at Woodstock Opera House, 121 Van Buren St., Woodstock. The 20-member ensemble, based...
THAT SURROGATE SPIRIT
Has it really come to this, that stressed-out urbanites are so busy they don`t have time to decorate their own Christmas trees? Catherine Tobsin is hoping so, because she`s just...
GENTLEMEN! SAY SOMETHING
So how do single men really feel about having a relationship with a Murphy Brown type of woman-professional, take charge, accomplished. Here`s what six Chicago-area men said, when asked if...