Steve Knopper

Building a bunker? You'll need this stuff (taken, for the most part, from Y2K survival Web sites): Bottled water. Always start with the basics. Gravity-fed water filters. In case you...

Only sissies stockpile bottled water and hide out in the basement on New Year's Eve. Savvy survivalists walk where they want, talk how they want and attend parties where they...

Our nomination for "Eve City of the Millennium" -- but we won't say which millennium -- is Evanston, which, with a little creative pronunciation, has "eve" right there in the...

What do these "Eves" plan to do on Christmas Eve and New Year's Eve? Ray Fallon, president of Eve Recruiters Ltd.: "I'm not quite sure. I'm going to a party...

Every March 16, St. Patrick does NOT come down the chimney bearing a keg of green lager. Every Feb. 13, lovers do NOT gather around the rosebushes praying for their...

This year's gift-buying frenzy is almost over, but for you last-minute shoppers, we asked our Austin Powers nemesis, Dr. Evil, for his Top 10 Xmas gift suggestions: 10. Melissa Virus:...

Double-necked heavy-metal guitars, sure -- but rarely do Americans get the opportunity to see a long-necked Indian lute, much less somebody playing it. Lutist Stephen Bero, along with tabla player...

Inspired by Devon Avenue's shifting ethnic neighborhoods -- Indian grocery stores on one block, Jewish cultural centers the next -- longtime Chicago artist Sallie Gilmore Roniss translates street life into...

Like Frank Sinatra, the late Chicago singer Chuck Koster (left) considered himself a saloon singer even after the '30s, when tough, speak-easy style "saloons" gave way to kitschy, Las Vegas-esque...

If Dean Martin, a working CD player and a cup of eggnog just aren't live enough for you, the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, the Chicago Children's Choir and the Gus Giordano...