Steve Knopper

There will be enough equestrians to choke a horse at the Northern Illinois Horse Fest, 9 a.m. Saturday and Sunday at the Boone County Fairgrounds in Belvidere. Experts will perform...

It's safe to assume Chicago's punk-rocking, boot-stomping, Hank Williams-deifying Waco Brothers won't share the stage with Generations, billed as the "best '70s cover band in the city." But that's the...

Contrary to historical rumor, the Potawatomi Indians did not invent the CAT-scan machine and just leave it there for Evanston Hospital to discover more than a century later. But as...

Though they can't soar like Michael Jordan, elbow like Dennis Rodman or look embattled like Tim Floyd, the IncrediBulls keep pro hoops exciting even during the boring parts. (Jumbo Slingshot,...

To paraphrase the great Louis Jordan, you don't have to pay the usual admission if you're a cook or a waiter or just a good musician at the fish fry...

We can't imagine anything more appropriate to do in an election year than watch a play about red tape, greed, hypocrisy, incompetent middle managers and military researchers. They're the central...

With steelpan rhythms, handmade masquerade costumes and jumping calypso songs, the only thing missing from Carifete Kickoff 2000: Carnival Across the Caribbean will be Lord Kitchener himself. The famed Trinidadian...

When Van Gogh cleaned out his basement, did discarded still-life ear-and-apple paintings wind up in his trash? Too bad that in his day there was no such thing as the...

Singer Anastasia, princess of candy-bar commercials, er, R&B music, reigns among the denim, leather, spandex and sparkles at 7 p.m. Friday and 3 p.m. Saturday at the Woodfield Shopping Center's...

Please, somebody, go to the Newberry Library's "Bughouse Square Debates," shout, "Admiral Stockdale for vice president!" and let us know what happens. The annual free-speech sound-off begins at 1 p.m....