Steve Knopper

Zzzzrrrt! There goes Dario Franchitti. Zzzzzzasssh! There he goes again. (It's always hard to translate the Doppler effect into print.) Franchitti and Paul Tracy finished second and third, respectively, at...

Even in the 1600s, there was nothing to do in Nebraska or Kansas but stare at the sky -- which is exactly what the Skidi Band of the Pawnee Native...

How come whenever people write about folk singer Arlo Guthrie, they almost never mention his excellent 1976 adaptation of the Rolling Stones' "Connection"? But you know him, of course, as...

Here's how to get the most of two weekend Chicagoland events: First, buy a stack of books during Festival of the Book at Columbia College. Then, use the books in...

The 26th annual Downtown LaGrange Craft Show has Beanie Baby accessories, yard decorations and jewelry boxes. But the 37th annual Invitational Craft Exhibition sells artistic works of ceramics, metal, fiber,...

The producers of "Titanic" could have learned a lesson in economy from the Chicago Short Comedy Video & Film Festival 2000. Comedians Tim Kazurinsky (who's more famous, we hope, for...

There's no truth to the rumor that Chicago SummerDance's finale will have all the bands on stage at the same time, leading dancers through 20 seconds of klezmer, 15 seconds...

"The Four Bridges of Elgin" sounds more like a J.R.R. Tolkien novel-"Gandalf! Concoct a spell so we can cross the Fox River!"-than a community sports event. But it's actually a...

Though a question-and-answer session with Raggedy Ann and Andy has apparently fallen through ("personal differences"), the National Institute of American Doll Artists' gallery night still features 50 interesting doll-sculpture artists....

Britney Spears may snag all the magazine covers these days, but for sheer popular endurance she's just barely ahead of outlaw duo Montgomery Gentry, whose album "Tattoos and Scars" has...