Robert K. Elder

ACTUALLY, WE WERE SEEKING TO PROVIDE THE SENSORY EQUIVALENT OF ONE OF OUR JAMS ... While crossing the Kinzie Street Bridge in August, the Dave Matthews Band's bus allegedly dumped...

NOVEMBER 16 "Inside the Kinsey: After decades of closed doors and controversy, the birthplace of sexuality study is giving the public a peek." Since director Bill Condon's movie "Kinsey" opened...

"Heavyweight disaster: Shelby, Montana, was just hoping to get its name in the national media when it decided to host a championship fight between champ Jack Dempsey and up-and-coming boxer...

"One man moving mountains: The local refugee community is small, but a leader with vision is helping establish Chicago as a Cambodian cultural center with the first U.S. memorial to...

Spain's cinematic toreador Pedro Almodovar returns with "Bad Education," a deeply personal, sharply realized film that shrouds itself in film noir sensibilities and the recent Catholic Church sex abuse scandals....

Sooner or later, all vampire stories come back to Dracula. "Blade: Trinity," the third fang-flashing installment in Wesley Snipes' vampire-killer franchise, is no exception. It seems that Dracula (Dominic Purcell)...

Q. In Oliver Stone's new movie "Alexander," Colin Farrell plays a bisexual Alexander the Great, married to Roxane (Rosario Dawson) but also sharing affections with Hephaistion (Jared Leto). How historically...

Every year, the good folks at the Chicago Humanities Festival painstakingly come up with theme -- often a very broad, very slippery umbrella concept such as "Love & Marriage," "Brains...

Who's in it: Marcus Thomas, Penelope Cruz, Alan Arkin, Susan Sarandon, Paul Walker What it's about: It's Christmas Eve in New York City, and with a little help from one...

Writer/director Brad Bird ("The Iron Giant") delivers a vivid, sublime parody and valentine to the superhero genre with "The Incredibles." At its center, Mr. Incredible (voiced by Craig T. Nelson)--essentially...