New blue: Police heroism makes cop dramas relics
`Hold on," you say. "Isn't `Training Day' the No. 1 movie in America?" It is. "Well, then," you say, "that refutes your point, right?" It doesn't. "OK," you say. "You'd...
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Tribune critics provide a road map
To help you sort through the dozens of offerings of the Chicago Humanities Festival, Tribune critics offer a few suggestions. "Powder Her Face": 8 p.m. Nov. 3 and 7 p.m....
Tribune critics provide a road map
To help you sort through the dozens of offerings of the Chicago Humanities Festival, Tribune critics offer a few suggestions. "Powder Her Face": 8 p.m. Nov. 3 and 7 p.m....
After Sept. 11, last messages from planes ring in our minds
How brave they were. How focused. How resolute. They didn't, it seems, plead or curse or sob or swear bitter vengeance. Under the most extraordinary pressure imaginable, they said what...
After the attack, postmodernism loses its glib grip
The room had picked up on the restlessness of its inhabitants. There was a nervous energy in the air. An edge. It was three days after Sept. 11 and this...
`Evil’: An old-fashioned word becomes a new rallying cry
It was, until last week, a word we didn't often hear outside of comic books or horror films or Sunday school class. It was an old-fashioned word, top-heavy with history...
The scene in rural Pennsylvania:
At dusk the sky here turns a creamy, languid purple, as if a bottle of ink has been tipped on the horizon. Sky is what you notice most in this...
911 call preceded fiery Pennsylvania crash
The call came at 9:58 a.m., a frantic message from a passenger aboard United Airlines Flight 93, on a wayward path over western Pennsylvania. Over and over, the man told...
911 call preceded fiery Pennsylvania crash
The call came at 9:58 a.m., a frantic message from a passenger aboard United Airlines Flight 93, on a wayward path over western Pennsylvania. Over and over, the man told...
Read — or decorated a room with — any good books lately?
I am thinking of having my picture taken in front of the Ermenegildo Zegna store at 645 N. Michigan Ave. Frankly, I could use the IQ points. That establishment, a...