In memoriam: Reasons to love Richard Lewis, and why he loved Chicago
He first performed in Chicago in 1984 at Zanies and remained loyal to the Old Town comedy club ever since, last performing there in 2018.
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FitzGerald’s in Berwyn may soon be a landmark — something Chicago music fans already knew
As the owners of the music club seek to secure landmark status, a look at its long and colorful history.
What was it like to dive into the poetry pool? My time as guest editor of Poetry Magazine
What is a poet? This is a question that I have been asking most of my life.
In the footsteps of Studs Terkel, Mark Larson gives us his own ‘Working’
He discovered, quickly, a working world vastly different from Terkel’s. "Some of the jobs then no longer exist and there are now jobs that no one could even have imagined...
As Patty Hearst turns 70, new book recalls her kidnapping and that famous bank robbery
Patty Hearst turns 70 on Tuesday. That name might not mean a great deal to some of you. But it might bring back vivid memories of a rifle-toting young woman...
What’s it like to work with Cruise, Pitt or Belushi? Ed Zwick knows
The Chicago director's new book is “Hits, Flops, and Other Illusions: My Fortysomething Years in Hollywood.”
The music goes on for singer Paul Marinaro, in concert in Evanston this weekend
Paul Marinaro came to Chicago by car, driving in from Buffalo, New York. He carried with him some clothes, a few record albums and something special.
Unearthing the brilliance and playfulness of Ring Lardner in ‘Frank Chance’s Diamond’
Former sportswriter Ron Rapoport brings Ring Lardner's sports writing into the light in his new book "Frank Chance’s Diamond."
Into the lucrative world of sports trading cards and memorabilia with expert Michael Osacky
Michael Osacky occupies an important niche in the surprisingly vast, sometimes wicked and increasingly competitive and lucrative world of sports memorabilia.
Some 30 years later, ‘Groundhog Day’ still casts a spell, no matter who shows up at a reunion
On the momentous evening of Aug. 8, 1988, two of the greatest characters this city has ever known shared a microphone at Wrigley Field. It was the occasion of the...