Seven hours in the cinema

What question , Tony used to ask, is this the answer to ? I guess you're thinking, O, that's what they do on Jeopardy. But Tony was ...

Using the cancer card

I was riding my bike to the Belmont L and had stopped at the light at Belmont and Sheffield. I felt someone bump against my basket. Some guy...

Mysterious Blue Lights

[Andrew Nelles photo} Lately I noticed that some buildings in the Loop had blue lights on top and I couldn't figure out why. It couldn...

For those who need nipples...

[reconstructed breasts, no nipples yet, photo from smartplasticsurgery.com] Serena Lander reports that she will be back in Chicago Oct. 15 ...

Christopher Hitchens, still God-free

[Christopher Hitchens, AP photo] I'm dying, and so are you, Hitchens told his audience in Alabama. His esophageal cancer has metastasize...

apres Yom Kippur

So it is the next day, four hours after the nine-year-old at our break-fast blew the shofar to signal the end of the fast. I suppose we are ...

Woman with stage 4 breast cancer says landlord unfair

[Mary Ellen Hintz, photo by Brian Cassella, Chicago Tribune] The Trib has shrunk physically--the pages became narrower some years ago--and i...

In today's Trib

1. Mammograms may not reveal tumors in women under 50 because the tumors and dense breast tissue show up as the same color. Read Trib story ...

What is "the suburbs"?

What is Detroit? sparked some comment on Facebook. Where did my vision of Detroit come from? Why do I get to have it and spread it? The ques...

Lke me, like me, like me

O what is wrong with me? I heard that a longtime friend's daughter had moved to town and I want to invite her to come over to break the ...

What is Detroit?

[ Fisher Body Plant No. 21, Detroit, Sean Hemmerle, Time ] Yesterday's Trib had an op-ed by a mayoral wannabe from 1971. He began: Chic...

Elevated

I was in the elevator at the Fancy Hospital Medical Building after my phototherapy session, which has really helped alleviate the itching/bu...