Julia Keller

When creator David Chase did stop "The Sopranos" Sunday night on HBO, people around the country were blogging, e-mailing, phoning and talking (cursing? laughing?) about his decision to abruptly end...

Let's put this as diplomatically as possible, shall we? The mayor misspoke. When Richard Daley said of cab drivers last week, "They should stop driving the [Crown] Victoria," adding, "Your...

HOMEROOM Summer on your own turf -- Grilling Weber Grill Restaurant's classes can show you the basics. On June 16, Grilling 101 teaches you about burgers, steaks and gas vs....

We know, we know. Staying up all night, even if you're being inundated with entertainment, is a challenge. But your mission, should you choose to accept it, is the first...

Robert Remini, The House in Conflict. (402), 10-11 a.m. Nov. 4, The Newberry Library, 60 W. Walton St. The retired history professor from the University of Illinois at Chicago brings...

Blue sky. Bright sun. Clouds that look like Cool Whip. Driving across the Pennsylvania Turnpike late last week on my way to an interview for a story, I was admiring...

Editor's note: Mystery writer Mickey Spillane, author of such hard-boiled tales as "I, the Jury" (1947) and creator of detective Mike Hammer, died earlier this week at 88. A day...

In the season finale of "Lost," the character Desmond says he carries around Charles Dickens' "Our Mutual Friend" because he wants that to be the last book he reads before...

Come Tuesday, all heaven's gonna break loose. The hotly anticipated paperback version of "The Da Vinci Code" -- the novel that wrings high drama and lowdown behavior out of church...

Who: British writer Julian Barnes, dapper, debonair and deadpan author of the new novel "Arthur & George" (Knopf, 2006), an account of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle -- creator of Sherlock...