Jon Anderson

`You are what you eat,'' someone once proclaimed, which is why an inventory of Michelangelo`s pantry, discovered last week in St. Louis, is important to anyone who consumes food. Following...

The other day, when Robert Burchfield, the editor in charge of updating the Oxford English Dictionary, stopped in at The Tribune for a few words, he talked about the growth...

Three times a year, an actor has a dream. ''I am in my dressing room, getting ready for a performance. I realize my costume is not there. I call for...

On a Saturday afternoon last September, David Barazani left his one-room apartment in Uptown and went to his family`s home in Edgewater. His father, Morris, an artist and teacher, was...

Former President Richard Nixon, in a rare Chicago appearance before 540 of the city`s leaders, predicted Tuesday night that the Geneva summit next month could lay the groundwork for an...

As a new fall TV season begins, here are probable clicks and bombs, as agreed on by the two advertising agencies--Dancer Fitzgerald Sample and Batten, Barton, Durstine & Osborn--which annually...

A helicopter whirs over Chicago. A hooded motorcyclist roars through Lincoln Park. A bomb-toting terrorist holes up in the Chicago Historical Society. Leaping through the crowd outside is a gung-ho...

Frontline: Breaking the Bank,'' at 9 p.m. Tuesday on WTTW-Ch. 11, is a savvy documentary that puts pictures and faces to a Chicago financial drama, last spring`s worldwide run on...

`Heroes at Home,'' at 11 p.m. Monday on WLS-Ch. 7, is a Memorial Day appreciation of individual struggles faced by United States soldiers who served in Vietnam, a war described...

`Spaceflight,'' which starts at 8 p.m. Wednesday on WTTW-Ch. 11, is a calm and measured four-part history of American and Russian space flight, a sort of ''Victory at Sea'' treatment...