Patrick T. Reardon

"What I do is noble," Internet gossip-master Perez Hilton said Sunday in an interview with the Tribune, during a visit to Chicago to promote his first book, "Red Carpet Suicide:...

Yes, Hillary Carlip still collects shopping lists. When Tribune readers met her, Carlip, an actress and performance artist, had just published "a la Cart: The Secret Lives of Grocery Shoppers"...

Life changed for former Chicagoan Lily Koppel when, in 2003, she was handed a beat-up, discarded diary from a Dumpster outside her Manhattan apartment. It had belonged to a precocious...

Dave Wiegers' hobby of photographing public statues of Abraham Lincoln has gotten him involved in promoting the official film of the Abraham Lincoln Bicentennial Commission, "Looking for Lincoln." Earlier this...

Snap! There's a reason they're called snapshots. Like the quick twist of a wrist that breaks a twig, the flick of the shutter snaps the flow of history. The result...

Last week McDonald's announced a major redesign of its packaging. Part of the new approach will incorporate "storytelling," company executives said. The announcement got us thinking: Exactly what kinds of...

Ted Turner and the Bible? Not an image that comes readily to mind. Yet, in his new autobiography, "Call Me Ted" (Grand Central), the founder of CNN and former husband...

So now you've got that piece of history -- that copy of Wednesday's Tribune or Sun-Times, or that magazine or poster -- and you want to preserve it, not only...

So now you've got that piece of history -- that copy of Wednesday's Tribune or Sun-Times, or that magazine or poster -- and you want to preserve it, not only...

Are we simply bees in a hive? We build high-rise offices, hotels and homes to protect ourselves from the elements. Yet, in these photographs of Chicago skyscrapers by Michael Wolf,...