A cozy boutique hotel in Quebec City
Hotel Dominion 1912 126 Rue Saint-Pierre Quebec City, Canada After a day of whale watching and driving around Quebec's soggy Tadoussac, my wife Betsy and I crash-landed in Hotel Dominion's...
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Who said we can pursue happiness?
Q. In the new movie "Pursuit of Happyness," Will Smith's character ponders Thomas Jefferson's wisdom in putting such a quirky phrase into the Declaration of Independence. How did it get...
CHICAGO HUMANITIES FESTIVAL
The process of writing is like hacking through a dense jungle with a machete, getting lost and having to double back. Twigs catch in your hair and scratch your face....
LITERATURE
Robert Remini, The House in Conflict. (402), 10-11 a.m. Nov. 4, The Newberry Library, 60 W. Walton St. The retired history professor from the University of Illinois at Chicago brings...
Not even close: Skull not that of improv legend
It's official: The human skull sitting in the Goodman Theatre is not that of improv legend Del Close. Before his death in 1999, Close willed his skull to the Goodman...
Keillor brings his friends to South Side
It won't be "A Prairie Home Companion" radio broadcast--not exactly--but Garrison Keillor's Sept. 15 show at the South Side's Gary Comer Youth Center will be "Companion-like," said Tony Judge, a...
Highlander’: best movie ever?
Q. In the NASCAR comedy "Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby," Will Farrell's character loves 1986's hyper-masculine movie "Highlander." In a bonding moment, he tells a rival driver that...
FOURTH ANNUAL
This story contains corrected material, published June 16, 2006. We drew from all quarters of the periodicals universe in compiling this year's selections. And what can we say about the...
GOOD QUESTION
Q. Last week, the Hanso Foundation ran an ad in the Tribune's front section attacking Gary Troup's novel "Bad Twin" and its publisher, Hyperion Books. What's the controversy? A. It's...
A GOOD QUESTION
Q. In "V for Vendetta," the movie's anarchist hero wears a smiling white mask modeled on British historical figure Guy Fawkes. Who was Fawkes? A. Fawkes (1570-1606) was one of...