Hugh Hart

This Christmas season, Tony Bennett is riding high. His critically acclaimed ''Perfectly Frank'' album is on Billboard`s Top 10 jazz chart, the ''Tony Bennett: A Family Christmas'' video just has...

Joan Rivers honed her catty wit at Chicago`s Second City, so not surprisingly, her first instinct is to toss out a snappy one-liner when asked about holiday gifts that have...

For two years, Gallery 37 has offered talented teenagers a job that beats the daylights out of flipping burgers at the local fast-food joint: for $4.35 an hour, Chicago students...

Those entranced with Robert Redford`s new movie about fly fishing, ''A River Runs Through It,'' can indulge themselves in fishing fantasies, thanks to GuildMaster`s new fishing pole lamp. Besides the...

This election year has brought the usual mud-slinging and finger-pointing. But one bit of hoopla seems to be missing: the campaign button. Buttons plugging presidential candidates haven`t disappeared, but their...

Rocket science it`s not, but there are a few tricks to selecting a healthy pumpkin. Herewith is some advice from Joe Sable, who runs the gardening program at Cantigny Foundation...

Just in time for the apple season, the musical ''Johnny Appleseed'' comes to the area this weekend for three performances. The Theatre IV touring company`s original production is based on...

Most everyone has heard of Lincoln Park, Lawndale, Chatham, Bridgeport. But how many Chicagoans know about Pill Hill (it`s a posh enclave populated by doctors on the Far South Side)....

Until last month, actress Amy Osborn had never heard of Betty Page, the `50s pinup model and might-have-been star hounded into obscurity by an anti-pornography government probe. But when Osborn...

Lemon aid: To buy, or not to buy, that`s the question often faced by used car customers. Schaumburg entrepreneur Don Hunter has an answer, Car Checkers of America, that he...