Nobel-book publisher can expect `a good kind of wild’
Nothing says "Buy me!" for a product quite like a big, prestigious international award slapped on its side. And they don't come any bigger or more prestigious than the Nobel...
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Red Planet fascinates critics, too
Mars has captured the imagination of many Tribune critics too. Here's a collection of their favorite references to the Red Planet. MOVIES Mars has been the unlikely movie site of...
‘Phoenix’ rises to the challenge
A sharp-cornered chunk of blue: That's what it looks like. With its brilliant blue cover and its rectangular bulk, "Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix" resembles a hunk...
Tribune critics: The nighttime can be the right time
MOVIE CRITIC: MICHAEL WILMINGTON FILM NOIR IN GRANT PARK Remember movies under the stars and the old outdoor theaters? Beginning July 15, the City of Chicago again will offer what...
Laurel’s world: Ballet, basketball but no Barbies
Laurel Piper, 8, is a 3rd grader at John Laidlaw Elementary School in Western Springs. Her brother Clint is 11. Her parents, Gina Trimarco and Brian Piper, work as an...
`A day of clouds and whirlwinds’
When the night came again it was black night, for the stars could not pierce the dust to get down. . . . In the morning the dust hung like...
When the pleasure of the arts inspires feelings of guilt
When the bombs began to fall on Baghdad, I had John Grisham on my nightstand, Michelle Branch on my portable CD player and a whopping load of guilt on my...
French Connections
America's recent epidemic of France-bashing may have reached its most absurd point last weekend, when someone in New Orleans' French Quarter began circulating a petition to re-christen the place the...
The fan-atic factor
You can sure tell a Duke fan -- but you can't tell him much. He's the one bouncing up and down in unison with other Blue Devils fans, trying to...
The great white hype
When Jude Law wanted to make himself look like a rotten, no-good, slimy scumbag in the movie "The Road to Perdition," he knew just what to do: He gave himself...