Starz series ‘Force’ returns for Season 2 with Joseph Sikora ready to take over Chicago
Sept. 1 will be a big day for Joseph Sikora. He has been awaiting the day, actually Friday night at 7 p.m. CT, for a long time, ever since he...
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Beckie Menzie and Tom Michael have been making music together for more than 25 years
Her husband is named Irwin Berkowitz. He is a percussionist. He is sitting across the room as his wife, Beckie Menzie, who is a pianist and singer, tells me that...
Ever make a collage? Of course you did, as a kid. Now let the professionals show you how it’s done.
If you were lucky enough to have had a teacher with an artistic bent or parents who wanted to keep you from watching TV or goofing around on the internet,...
Robert Swan appreciation: Movie actor, singer and founder of Harbor Country Opera has died at 78
Robert Swan was a big man. He was big in physical stature, standing 6'4? and weighing 220-some pounds. He was big in talent, displayed on theatrical stages, in movie roles,...
In 40 years as a jazzman, Bill Harrison had ups and downs and one night dressed as a Conehead
If you think the world of a professional musician is all great tunes and glamour, you should have been at a downtown hotel on Dec. 13, 1983, when jazz bassist...
In memoriam: Richard Barancik, artful architect and last of the ‘Monuments Men,’ is dead at 98
There is a handsome high-rise on Bellevue Place in the Gold Coast that features a lobby with a colorful mural filled with flora and fauna. Two of the building's elevators...
A Cubs song from the past surfaces and Sam Fazio and some pals bring it back to tuneful life
On a list of the many things the Cubs might need for a successful season, a new song is not near the top. But that's what the team has now,...
Return with us, and Mike Royko, to beer-tasting days of old
On the afternoon of July 10, 1973, Mike Royko was not drinking but instead was washing glasses and was ready, if the need arose, to "break up fights." He was...
The couple that writes together has a pair of new books about the world around us
Reunions can be pleasant and so it was when I got together with former Tribune colleagues Barbara Mahany and Blair Kamin. But our conversation was less about what old mutual...
An appreciation: Pioneering female journalist and jazz critic Harriet Choice has died at 82
Thousands of people knew Harriet Rosenfeld Choice by the words she wrote for this newspaper, decades worth of her enthusiastic and influential coverage of the jazz scene, which compelled her...