Richard Phillips

`This is home,'' says Bob Goldman, grinning. ''Make yourself comfortable. Have a seat.'' Go ahead. Try. Finding a chair in Goldman`s 13th floor living room in Kenwood provides an unexpected...

In the three decades since scientist Gregory Pincus excitedly announced laboratory synthesis of a hormone enabling women to avoid pregnancy, contraceptive research has slowed not a bit. At least 30...

Thanks to America`s ravenous appetite for homemade ice cream, there`s an ice-cream maker for every budget. In the last five years there has been a virtual population explosion of gourmet...

Nancy Duggan learned about the dark side of fitness on an aerobics carpet in a health club. In a single step of joyous abandon, she plummeted from the heavens with...

''Ghosts of the Big Horn Thunder,'' De Paul/Goodman Children`s Theater`s latest production, takes its cue from George Santayana`s famous observation that those who fail to learn from history are condemned...

Mom seldom permitted children in her kitchen, so supper always was something of a miracle to me. But Mom is behind lots of miracles, for that matter. ''Out. Out. Out!...

Allergies afflict so many. Sniff some ragweed in a ripe season, eat a little chicken laced with a new chemical, let a friendly cat get too close --and a quarter...

''David Copperfield,'' playing Saturdays at the First Chicago Center, is a first-rate adaptation of Charles Dickens` classic. The production is an unusually sophisticated effort for the De Paul/Goodman Children`s Theater,...