Patrick T. Reardon

For Christian publishers, the message has always been more important than literary art or profit. "A Christian publishing house does have a higher agenda -- to help people understand what...

Disney's strategy of presenting "Fantasia/2000" only at IMAX theaters during its first four months of release is paying big dividends. Although available on just 54 screens throughout the U.S., the...

Aug. 1, 1999 The calls started coming in on the Sunday morning in August that a story on Mary Gonzales appeared. Some Tribune readers wanted to send Gonzales bags of...

Tom Mula's "Jacob Marley's Christmas Carol" is part of a relatively modern subgenre of literature in which writers take characters from famous works and build stories around them. Here are...

Around 1050 The art of making bricks, originally developed by the Romans and then lost, is rediscovered in Europe, but, because of their expense, bricks are predominately used in homes...

The Asian longhorned beetle, which rocketed to fame last summer when it was "discovered" in Chicago's Ravenswood neighborhood, is again being seen about town. This summer, eagle-eyed celebrity watchers have...

Midway through Melanie Villines' rollicking first novel, "Tales of the Sacred Heart," Norma Villalobos explains to a radio interviewer how she came to be rescued from an ice floe in...

Family life in America at the dawn of the new millennium is immensely more complex than it was in the 1950s. Back then, the nuclear family had emerged as the...

The signs are everywhere on Chicago's Northwest Side: ksiazki for bookstore; apteka for pharmacy; zapraszamy for welcome. The Polish Yellow Pages grows thicker each year, and the language can be...

So there was Bill Clinton late last October, standing in the crowded gymnasium at Oscar Mayer Elementary School on the Near North Side, praising--praising!--the Chicago Public Schools and their beaming...