Steve Knopper

- Meet Will Shakespeare, chat with Don Juan and be entertained by various free romantic events Friday evening at Elmhurst City Centre in downtown Elmhurst. The Renaissance-flavored affair - part...

There's so much blues in Chicago, it's tough to pick a starting point. But check out this weekend's city-sponsored WinterBreak blues events: Local nightclubs, like Rosa's Lounge, the Checkerboard Lounge...

One dancer bears an odd resemblance to Michael Flatley, wears tight pants and does an Irish jig. Another has a strange obsession with clean underwear. A third fits pool cues...

When Bret Easton Ellis, 35, answered the phone at his San Francisco hotel, he could barely make himself heard above what sounded like a revving chainsaw, human moaning and spurting...

Fortunately for Mexico's cultural history, the "Dilbert" calendar didn't come out until the early 1990s. So for much of this century, Mexican people had to mark the months with beautiful...

Jimmy Rogers All Stars Blues Blues Blues (Atlantic) In duets with rock's most recognizable voices -- the Rolling Stones' Mick Jagger on "Trouble No More" and Eric Clapton on "Blues...

They haven't worn red-and-white-striped shirts - or cut hair, for that matter - in years, but the a cappella singers known as "barbershop quartets" can fill a theater every year....

For all his other accomplishments, Peter Fonda is frozen in time as the big-sideburned free spirit, Captain America, from 1969's biker classic "Easy Rider." He still loves to talk about...

New Year's Day is for lying on the couch with a terrible headache while watching a numbing parade of faceless college football teams. At least, that's the way it goes...

On a night when many people are out roistering, the reverends and temple masters at Chicago's Zen Buddhist Temple plan something entirely different. During a year-end service titled "Kindling Light...