Now that winter has finally arrived after a balmy start in January, it's time for film critic Dann Gire to celebrate the season with 10 of the coldest movies ever made. Over the years, Hollywood and indie filmmakers have churned out some real subzero motion pictures — “Dr. Zhivago,” “Ice Station Zebra,” the original “The Thing” — but other movies...

David Milch had the script for a horse-racing drama kicking around in his head for 30 years. The screenwriter and producer was just too busy living it to put words to paper. Milch’s portrait of horse racing’s seedier side comes to life in the drama series “Luck,” starring Dustin Hoffman and Nick Nolte, debuting at 8 p.m. Sunday, Jan. 29, on HBO. He couldn’t write it...

Beekeeping is a growing trend in the suburbs and now Des Plaines city officials, at the urging of Ward 4 resident Rick Bohning, are investigating whether it should be allowed there. “Honeybees are not aggressive except when protecting the honey storage in their hive,” he said.

For at least 400 years, botanists across the globe have relied on Latin as their lingua franca, but the ardor has cooled. Scientists say plants will keep their double-barreled Latin names, but they have decided to drop the requirement that new species be described in the classical language.

From Disney characters on ice to movie stars in grease; from traveling to Elgin to see and hear several hundred pianists, to traveling to Rosemont to discover other delightful sojourns possibilities, Sean Stangland and Richard Battin offer up their picks for weekend activities.

Jordan Knight will always be a New Kid. But he's also a married father of two, a solo artist and an occasional TV star. On Saturday, the New Kids on the Block lead singer brings his “Live and Unfinished” solo tour to Lincolnshire's Viper Alley for an intimate, 500-capacity show.

Drury Lane Theatre's "Gypsy" packs a brassy wallop thanks to a great cast led by the powerful Momma Rose of Klea Blackhurst. Drury Lane surrounds her with a strong cast and sensational staging by director William Osetek that emphasizes the hyper-theatricality of the show. This superlative production of “Gypsy” delivers time and time again.

Demi Moore smoked something before she was rushed to the hospital on Monday night and was "semi-conscious, barely," according to a caller on a 911 recording released Friday by Los Angeles fire officials. The woman tells emergency operators that Moore had been "having issues lately."

Seeking a larger home and lot, Nancy and Ron George found a spacious two-story house and beautiful open lot in the Little Creek Farm subdivision on the west side of Streamwood.“It was a good fit,” Nancy George said. “We liked the area because no one has fences, and it’s all open land. Our home backs up to the horse stables (Little Creek Quarter Horse Farm), and it’s...