Stephen Franklin

Scintillating salsa pumping through the large, white-tiled dining room over loudspeakers is one reason that Cafe Bolero & Grill es muy Cubano. Another reason is the very respectable offering of...

Once, in another life, we wandered out of the desert into Morocco and what a delicious surprise it was. The same thing happened the night we wandered by the Sheridan-Road...

Sometimes, it seems like being Jewish means having to go to an endless series of memorial services, thought Rosalie Grad as she sat in the Chicago Loop Synagogue, while names...

Oh Istanbul. Oh kebab. Oh kebab under a yogurt blanket. Oh kebab with a paprika brush. Since we are emotional, we might as well get personal. A good kebab never...

Hema shakes her head, smiling broadly. No, she says, this goes better. Not too oily. Better mixture. Then Hema Potla, a short, cheerful, middle-age woman swathed in a large apron...

Say you get turned away from a job at a federally funded construction project and you notice that nobody earning a paycheck there looks like you. If you are a...

After losing his home when his union's job referrals stopped, after union members hurled racial slurs at him at union meetings and threatened to hang him and other blacks, Frank...

Take my hand. Look ahead. Feel the music. We must say this. We must. We really must. Not all empanadas are alike. Please forgive me. Some are greasy, boring, stale...

A class-action suit filed in federal court in Chicago Wednesday aims to put off the machinists union's participation in the proposed employee buyout of United Airlines. The buyout by two...

Gloria Estafan's sweet voice nestles among the tacos, cooked in vegetable oil only, yeeech, no lard used here. "Mi carino," she warbles over the loudspeakers. We want to warble too,...