Rowling not laughing about Army’s comic
Is that bespectacled boy who's pouring a sleeping potion into a large jar Harry Potter? And, next to him, is that Ron Weasley with some truth potion? And Hermione Granger...
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AUGUST 18 The page turner: 'Tuesday, September 11, 2001, dawned temperate and nearly cloudless in the eastern United States.' So begins the government report that is at once poignant, chilling...
Groucho making his marks as supersleuth
"Whodunit? Elvis knows: He joins Aristotle and other unlikely sleuths in a strange blend of mystery with history" -- Aug. 25 In the world of historical mysteries, there's no rest...
Done wrestling with its location
"Hall of Fame Highway: A strange force hovers for 1,000 miles along Interstate 90 between Chicago and Boston. There's no other explanation for a road punctuated with 17 shrines to...
The ‘Da Vinci’ code word is sales
" 'The Da Vinci Code' . . . unscrambled: The blockbuster thriller has millions talking theology, art and history. Yet many are unsure what's fact and what's fiction. We asked...
For one winner, ‘big respect’
"The chosen: Two Chicagoans are among this year's group of MacArthur 'genius grant' winners. Reginald Robinson, Ragtime composer and pianist." -- Sept. 28 Reginald Robinson is busier than he's ever...
Focusing on the Chicago area’s people and places, past and present
Along the Divide: Photographs of the Dan Ryan Expressway By Jay Wolke The Center for American Places, in association with Columbia College Chicago, 88 pages, $40 The Dan Ryan Expressway...
Even from hate, a lesson learned
As a young boy in the small town of Rentiesville, Okla., in the 1920s, John Hope Franklin, the pre-eminent scholar of the African-American experience, learned a lesson in hate. His...
Is candy corn the ideal Halloween treat?
It was never about the costumes. If it had been, wouldn't we dress ourselves as Harry Potter or Satan every day of our lives, now that we're grown up? Nobody...
CHICAGO HUMANITIES FESTIVAL
Sports Panel: "Two-Minute Warnings, Sudden Death Overtimes, and Running Out the Clock" (311), 11 a.m., Nov. 6, Ganz Hall, Roosevelt University. If you're a sports fan yearning for reasoned, knowledgeable...