Monica Eng

A grade-school friend used to rhapsodize about her summers in where she and her cousins would take inner tubes down the river into town and buy wonderful little grilled sausages...

Following an unusual sequence of events that unfolded in the Chicago area and involved three Chinese writers, a publisher controlled by the Beijing government has canceled publication of the novel...

A dozen of our favorite nonsense song titles 1. The Beatles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da 2. Alex...

In the '60s they were animals: Turtles, Monkees, Crickets, Byrds and Beatles. In the '80s they were toxic: Poison, Venom, Ratt, W.A.S.P. and the Scorpions. It only takes a brief...

Q. I've heard songs by everyone from Peter Gabriel to Steely Dan sampled in rap hits. Do the original artists get any money when their songs are sampled? A. When...

Back in the '80s, Ira Kaplan and Georgia Hubley started playing cover songs for their friends; now they fill clubs like Metro on a regular basis (they'll play a two-night...

Although many Chicagoans consider satay a Thai treat, it actually has its Southeast Asian origins in Indonesia. The Indonesians developed it as a variation on the Indian kebab of the...

Like a lot of Americans, we at World Eats are really trying to cut down on our meat consumption. But when the warmer spring winds send the aroma of sweet...

Aimed squarely at all the kids who scream for the "Scream" movies, "Gossip" is a new thriller that takes on the subject of how we construct reality and perceive the...

Sure we like Italian beef and deep-dish pizza, but perhaps our favorite Chicago-born culinary creation is the jibarito (HEE-bar-eeto) sandwich. Little known outside Chicago's Puerto Rican community, the jibarito (or...