Sid Smith

PHYS ED "Let's have some fun out there!" -- Softball, volleyball and tennis Chicago Sports Monster (773-866-2955, sportsmonster.net) and Chicago Sport and Social Club (chicagosportandsocialclub.com, 312-335-9596) host softball and volleyball...

Concert Dance Inc. will launch the 2007 Ruth Page Dance Festival with performances Wednesday and Thursday at Bennett-Gordon Hall at the Ravinia Festival in Highland Park. The program will include...

"The Wild Blue Yonder" is at times playful and inventive, at others simplistic and silly. Ultimately, Werner Herzog's free-form, idiosyncratic devolution of the documentary is beautiful but dull. Herzog is...

THEATER - Main-floor tickets to the reputable national touring production of "Twelve Angry Men" (starring Richard Thomas and George Wendt) can be had for $41, in honor of Super Bowl...

In the fall of 1977, a 13-year-old Japanese girl named Megumi Yokota disappeared in Niigata on her way home from school. For years, her parents and authorities were baffled. Did...

An unmistakable pop myth of our time is that of young girls alone in a house, besieged by some sort of homicidal baddie; it's been a plot mainstay for cinematic...

The husband and wife who run Hubbard Street 2--Hubbard Street Dance Chicago's highly regarded second company--are leaving their posts, it was announced Friday. Julie Nakagawa Bottcher, Hubbard 2's artistic director,...

Thodos Dance Chicago will go forward with plans to present the Chicago premiere of Danial Shapiro and Joanie Smith's "Dance With Two Army Blankets" despite Shapiro's death last week from...

Veteran actor Gene Janson, familiar to viewers of WTTW-Ch. 11 as the genial, soft-sell pitchman during the station's pledge drives, seemed a throwback to Old World gentility, his reassuring voice...

The real-life Denmark Vessey was an ex-slave living in Charleston, S.C., in 1822, benefactor of a lottery that gave him the money to purchase his own freedom. We know he...