Mary Daniels

`There`s a real groundswell in old cowboy gear,'' says Bill Mackin, a Colorado pyschotherapist and author of a hot new book titled ''Cowboy and Gunfighter Collectibles, A Photographic Encyclopedia with...

Have a hankerin` for a laid-back Southwestern lifestyle-or at least the trappings of one? A firm called West Design is making it as easy as falling off a corral fence...

A rare 18th Century American cherrywood block-front secretaire bookcase sold for $506,000 in an exciting bid war recently at Dunning`s Auction Service in Elgin, making it the most expensive piece...

Patti Pernini rode an elephant through the northern hill country of Thailand and slept in primitive huts in search of elusive kalagas, the spangled, sequined wall hangings of Southeast Asia....

It was as tough as trying to climb a tree without claws, picking the friskiest cat in the Midwest. Thousands of cat owners from Kansas to Cleveland had entered their...

Nebraska-born urban cowboy Bob Gifford and wife Maureen Reaney have just opened a rip-roaring new gallery, Out of the West, along the Clybourn canyon, where they have rounded up some...

''If they move, we`ll move with them,'' said Helen Robinson, founder/manager of Kane County Flea Market, referring to announcements that the Kane County Fairgrounds, host to events such as the...

Red tablecloths were quickly whirled like matadors` capes over the cages of a dozen or so exotic macaws at Montefiori the afternoon of Sunday, Aug. 27. No detail-except one-had been...

What can you do if you don`t have enough space in a room for everything that needs to go in it? How about ''fauxing'' some of the furniture? That was...

The Far East has been transposed to the Midwest with a newly opened gallery, Dragon Shadow, in Lincoln Park. At a cocktail party honoring the opening of the exhibition ''Appreciation...