Talking boxing with Kent Greene, the man who once TKO’d a young fighter named Cassius Clay
The old boxer answers the door of his south suburban home with a smile and a firm handshake and he moves across his living room and sits in a chair...
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After the Golden Gloves fights were over, these boxers went on to other successes — as judges, business owners and the creator of ‘Riverdance’
Abraham Lincoln Marovitz was a lawyer, a judge, a U.S. Marine, a friend of the famous and a friend of mine. He was also a boxer. Judge Abraham Lincoln Marovitz...
As WGN celebrates 75 years on air, anchorman Larry Potash exercises his curiosity in ‘Backstory’
Perhaps you have noticed, amid that soon-to-end numbing onslaught of political ads and the ongoing commercial avalanche for the Shen Yun performance troupe, some television mentions of WGN-TV's 75th anniversary....
Practical Theatre Company proves you can go back home with a series of shows at Evanston’s Studio5
You can go home again and the proof is in the three members of the acclaimed Practical Theatre Company, Victoria Zielinski and her husband Paul Barrosse and their pal Dana...
Baseball is back and Chicago’s Ira Berkow gives us dozens of tales about ‘Baseball’s Best Ever’
The crack of the bat, the roar of the crowd ... the game of baseball, long part of the American landscape and firmly placed in the hearts of millions, is...
Author Bill Zehme, whose subjects included Sinatra, Hugh Hefner, Leno and Andy Kaufman, is dead at 64
Name a star or celebrity of the last 40 years and it's likely that person was the subject of Bill Zehme's keen mind and artful writing, in such magazines as...
How the ghost and the words of Chicago writer Nelson Algren are being kept alive
Nelson Algren will not go away. Though he moved from Chicago in 1975 and died in 1981, he has managed to remain a frequent visitor, in the form of his...
Column: It may be only rock ‘n’ roll but former Gov. Rod Blagojevich was back in the spotlight for a few songs at Martyrs’
Beer was flowing, the band was playing, people danced and in the audience sat a former governor of Illinois at a table with his wife, ready to rock 'n' roll....
100 years old, the Chicago-born Golden Gloves are continuing to mold boxers and inspire lives
Have you ever watched two men or two women battle one another in a boxing ring? I mean in person and up close, where you can smell the sweat and...
Geoffrey Baer is back to give us a TV tour of some of Chicago’s ‘most beautiful places’
This being a newspaper, here's some news: The city is still here. It is here in all its remembered style and beauty and if there remain, as there have always...