Columns
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Pitt's hilarious ex-Navy SEAL can't save Bullock's anemic action comedy 'Lost City'Mar 24, 2022 1:00 pm - “The Lost City” - ★ ★ In the squelched action comedy “The Lost City,” Channing Tatum has fun as an inept, panicky wannabe hero, scurrying about and revealing more than w...
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Widescreen: 'Death on the Nile' floats home already, and 'The Batman' isn't far behindMar 24, 2022 6:00 am - Disney's acquisition of 20th Century Fox — now 20th Century Studios — hasn't been kind to the films left over from the previous regime. Example: Ridley Scott's excellent...
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Neighbors in the News: Maine West junior named to Carnegie Hall music programMar 24, 2022 6:00 am - • Maine West High School junior Sophia Luong was accepted as a member of the Carnegie Hall NYO2 program. The NYO2 tuition-free, summer program is for outstanding young m...
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Constable: '13 years just gone,' says Glenview man deleted from FacebookMar 24, 2022 5:30 am - When his 94-year-old mother died in April 2020 and pandemic restrictions limited her funeral to eight people, Facebook is the place where Jon Rachiele of Glenview mourne...
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Arkush: Which remaining free agents make sense for Bears?Mar 24, 2022 1:00 am - I know I'm the one that keeps preaching patience, but it's hard not to get just a bit frustrated with general manager Ryan Poles' approach to his first free-agency perio...
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Syndicated columnist Jamie Stiehm: Pelosi makes most of history every dayMar 24, 2022 1:00 am - What do you know for women's history month? March is going fast. Quick, when did women win the vote? "A Week in the Life of Speaker Pelosi" is my picture for the gallery...
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Feder: Strike at WTTW puts politicians on the spotMar 24, 2022 1:00 am - As the first strike in WTTW-Channel 11's history enters its second week, politicians are being urged to honor the picket lines - both real and virtual. In an email to p...
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How We Got The Story: Catching up with two Ukranian women professionals two years apartMar 24, 2022 1:00 am - Rolling stones, and journalists, gather no moss. That's because we never stand still. We keep moving from one story or crisis to the next. The news business is all about...
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Paramount inaugurates Copley series with a scorching revival of the ever-timely 'Sweat'Mar 23, 2022 11:00 pm - “Sweat” - ★ ★ ★ ★ If director Andrea J. Dymond's scorching revival of “Sweat” that inaugurated Paramount Theatre's Bold Series at the newly remodeled Copley Theatre is a...
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Tour-de-force performance: TV's Sean Hayes is superb as pianist/raconteur Oscar Levant in Goodman's 'Good Night, Oscar'Mar 23, 2022 2:00 pm - “Good Night, Oscar” - ★ ★ ★ ½ Hours before its official opening Monday, Goodman Theatre extended its premiere of “Good Night, Oscar,” Doug Wright's play about pianist, c...