Steve Knopper

Whatever you do, avoid Marvin Gardens at the big Navy Pier flower show this weekend -- they'll charge you $260 just for stopping by! (Sorry, bad Monopoly joke.) But each...

If Rudolf Nureyev had had a little more rock`n' roll (of the `96 Tears" variety) in his hips and wore more colorful costumes, he might have qualified for Ballet Hispanico,...

Camille Yarbrough The Iron Pot Cooker (Vanguard) Yarbrough occupies the intersection between Curtis Mayfield, Gil-Scott Heron and Lauryn Hill. But it took a British DJ, Fatboy Slim, to rescue the...

Now hear this, dog groomer Billy Rafferty: You're scheduled for makeover demonstrations Saturday and Sunday at the International Kennel Club of Chicago. That's Saturday and Sunday, at the International Kennel...

Secret weekend entertainment tip: Before the Winnetka Antiques Show, stand outside eppraisals.com expert Leslie Hindman's appraisal clinic at 2 p.m. Sunday and watch as people drag in their continental furniture,...

Two years ago, we would have sent a message to the Harlem Globetrotters: Don't bother. This city already had all the glitzy basketball entertainment it could handle. But now that...

Tongue-wise, Columbia College's pan-Asian spoken-word performance is a better bargain than its husband-and-wife poetry reading. "I Was Born With Two Tongues," which features several local Asian-American poets, is about one...

Listen, capitalist bachelors -- just because you've paid an astronomical price for the ultimate man or woman, that doesn't give you a free pass to kiss on the first date....

You know what would be cool? If car dealers lifted their Fords, Nissans and Mercedeses over their heads and carried them around while dancing to the Beatles' "Drive My Car."...

This time of year, Chicago tries not to be the home of the blues. Instead, for Valentine's Day, everybody starts dancing -- specifically, to the swinging "All Is Fair in...