Ron Grossman – Page 40

Want to control theater critics? Be careful what you wish for

May 23, 2019 at 4:03 a.m.

The angry voices calling for Hedy Weiss' ostracism from Chicago's theater scene echo a melodrama that played in Athens 2,509 years ago. Weiss, the Sun-Times theater critic, and Phrynichus, an...

Before Paris accord fallout, Europe disappointed Americans long ago

May 23, 2019 at 4:03 a.m.

Dear German Chancellor Angela Merkel, French President Emmanuel Macron, and sundry other European leaders and pundits: I share your disappointment with our president's trashing of the Paris climate-change accords. But...

Col. Theodore Roosevelt, left, who stopped off in Chicago on Feb. 3, 1932, on his way to his post in Manila, with James Simpson, center, and Stanley Field, right, inspect the mounted exhibit of giant pandas which were furnished to the exposition by the Field Museum Roosevelt-Simpson expedition of 1929.

Love pandas? Thank the Roosevelts and the Field Museum

August 24, 2022 at 11:23 a.m.

Donald Trump is not the first American president whose sons enjoy the sport of big-game hunting. But it's unlikely that any of the wild animals killed by Eric and Donald...

Senate Minority Leader Charles Schumer of N.Y., center, flanked by Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., left, and Sen. Jeff Merkley, D-Ore., meets with reporters on Capitol Hill in Washington on May 23, 2017, following a Democratic policy luncheon.

Democrats must start thinking about their theme for the day after Trump

May 23, 2019 at 4:03 a.m.

It is not too soon for Democrats to start thinking about the day after President Donald Trump. For now, they have a jim-dandy campaign theme: "We told you so!" But...

Did Clarence Darrow use victim-shaming to defend a murderer?

May 11, 2019 at 4:04 a.m.

There was no doubt that George Munding fatally shot Julia Douglass on Sept. 29, 1924. It was no secret that their marriage — if, indeed, that was their relationship —...

Delayed by Nazis, bar mitzvah to now be celebrated by 89-year-old Holocaust survivor

June 4, 2018 at 6:12 p.m.

Harold Katz didn't require a crash course in Hebrew before his bar mitzvah next week in Wilmette. He started preparing 76 years ago, and his skills never got rusty. Katz,...

Leaking isn’t new — though we may be in its golden age

May 23, 2019 at 4:03 a.m.

Ours is a golden age of purloined documents and anonymous sources. We wake up to newspaper stories sporting phrases like, "a person close to the investigation said." By midday, televised...

Sears' Homan Avenue complex offered bus services for its employees from the office on Homan and Arthington to the CTA's Congress line on March 31, 1972. About 1,200 employees use the service morning and night at a cost of about $70,000.

Sears was the Amazon.com of the 20th century

May 11, 2019 at 4:03 a.m.

For decades, one of the most recognizable return addresses in America was 925 S. Homan Ave. in Chicago, and it's no wonder. From 1906 to 1987, Sears, Roebuck and Co....

Trump illustrates again that facts are boring, fiction is fun

May 11, 2019 at 4:02 a.m.

A child of radio's golden age, I was addicted to "It Pays to Be Ignorant," a weekly satire on quiz shows. It featured a trio of vaudevillians deliberately flubbing softball...

Packaging engineers have mastered the craft to the point where people can no longer break into their purchases.

This consumer wants to consume — but can’t open the $%#@ package

May 23, 2019 at 4:03 a.m.

A question popped into my mind recently when I was stymied by a recalcitrant tub of butter: "What is on the syllabus for Packaging Engineering 101?" No, that's not quite...

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