Elves, hobbits and — wake me when it’s over
Here's my problem: Everyone in the universe, particularly every movie reviewer from the loftiest to the most humble, seems to think the "Lord of the Rings" trilogy is the greatest...
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1. Stan Jones, Montana's Libertarian candidate for the Senate, is the only ----- running for office in the United States this election? A. Co-producer of "Jackass: The Movie" B. Blue...
A quiet hero speaks
For most Americans, Neil A. Armstrong is an enigma. In the 33 years since he became the first human to walk on the moon, Armstrong has done nothing to capitalize...
`Night’ reading extends far beyond the city’s borders
Julia Talbot read "Night" one evening in her Northwest Side home, sitting in her 3-year-old son's bedroom as the young boy drifted off to sleep. Grover Franklin made his way...
This week, we revisit stories that ran…
This week, we revisit stories that ran in this section during the previous year. Haunted by new specters of Christmases past: 1931 and 1941 Dec. 25, 2000: "The Ghosts of...
MANSION IN THE HILLS
Set amid the gently hilly Beverly-Morgan Park area on Chicago's Far Southwest Side, this 17-room limestone mansion at 11213-21 S. Lothair Ave. overlooks a 110,991-square-foot wooded lot. While parcels this...
`Mockingbird’ takes wing
There was a moment of comic relief during Claudia Durst Johnson's lecture this week on "To Kill a Mockingbird" at the Harold Washington Library Center. Johnson, an expert on Lee's...
`Mockingbird’ message has new resonance
This is the week that Chicago has set aside to discuss "To Kill a Mockingbird," the book designated last summer as the first work to be read by the entire...
`Focusing more on what matters’
On Sept. 18, we reported on how two Chicago families -- the Robbinses and the Maaitahs -- were coping in the aftermath of the terrorist attacks. Today, and in the...
Novel idea still relevant
Last week, I started reading "To Kill a Mockingbird." Despite the terrorist attacks in New York and Washington, D.C., despite the new tensions and anxieties, the concern for the future,...