Column: Jazz singer Elaine Dame takes a new road with ‘Reminiscing’
The Chicago artist's career has spanned multiple albums as well as theater acting, both here and in Los Angeles.
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Column: ‘Deep Dish’ tells the stories behind the Malnati pizza empire, including some difficult ones
“Deep Dish: Inside the First 50 Years of Lou Malnati's Pizza” is a surprising book in that it has a welcome lack of recipes but also because it is self-aware.
Column: Sign painting is not yet a lost art — these artists still create them by hand
Andrew and Kelsey McClellan, owners of Heart & Bone Signs, have been painting the town for more than a decade and also work to preserve the "ghost signs" of Chicago's...
Column: The celebrity spotlight, brighter than ever, still shines on Tiger Woods
Professional golfer Tiger Woods' new girlfriend has the gossip machine rolling again with another bit of recent “news.” What is it about celebrities that draws our attention?
Column: When Harry met Wally, the result was a definitive book on how to watch television
“Watching TV: American Television Season by Season” by Walter Podrazik and Harry Castleman is now in its fourth edition.
Chicago Reader columnist Michael Miner, ‘a conscience of our profession,’ dies at 81
He wrote a story for the first issue of the Chicago Reader and was a journalist for the Sun-Times and Chicago Journalism Review, among other publications. He never wanted the...
Column: Bradley Cooper’s next screen role will be the cantankerous Chicago writer Nelson Algren
The Chicago writer's relationship with Simone de Beauvoir is said to be getting the big-screen treatment. What do we who knew Algren think of all this?
Steve Lasker, pioneering photojournalist who captured iconic Our Lady of the Angels fire image, dies at 94
Steve Lasker, a Chicago photojournalist who captured an iconic image from the Our Lady of the Angels school fire, has died at 94.
Column: Shannon Ward is a musician who sings and plays guitar for the joy of it, out of the spotlight
The longtime South Sider may play in simple, comfortable places, but she has her fans and her music makes people happy.
Column: As State Street’s closes for repairs, an appreciation of our bridges over the Chicago River
We depend on them every day. Chicago has more of them than anywhere else. Pausing to reflect on the marvel and history of our movable bridges.