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...