Steve Knopper

If you hear an "AAUUGGGH" May 1 at the Museum of Science & Industry, pay no attention; it's just Charlie Brown again. He may be the only kid not having...

This year's "Bark in the Park" schedule is pretty interesting: start time, 9 a.m.; dog Twister, 9:30 a.m.; dog Trivial Pursuit, 10:30 a.m.; barking the "1812 Overture," noon; fetch, 12:15...

Though there's no mention of "bring your own cow" or a lantern-kicking contest, the Great Chicago Fire walking tour will bring the city-changing 1871 disaster to mind vividly. Snaking through...

The ladder-shaped painting, with erect brown, tan and white lines meeting in a grid, looks like a modern art experiment, as if the painter is trying to say something about...

While staring down a large stegosaurus this weekend at Lincoln Mall, ask yourself this question: If dinosaurs really did come back, would they hang out at a mall? That's the...

Though singer Lysa Flores (at left) is part of the rock en espanol movement these days, she shares with the Mexican-American band Los Lobos a heritage of American punk and...

Help Wanted: Large media company seeks good-looking, personable individuals with working knowledge of five or six hugely popular songs. Perfect teeth a plus. Irritating voice, bland demeanor extremely helpful. No...

You're unlikely to find airbrushed family portraits in Joel-Peter Witkin's latest book of photographs, "The Bone House" (Twin Palms, 1998). The artist juxtaposes images of "unusual people" - hermaphrodites, dwarves,...

Most people know Eartha Kitt for her kitschier endeavors, like playing Catwoman on the old "Batman" television series and the Wicked Witch in last year's "The Wizard of Oz." But...

20 Miles I'm a Lucky Guy (Fat Possum/Epitaph) Punk rock, in the view of Mississippi's Fat Possum Records, has the same unfinished quality of the best blues, which is more...