Golfer getaway The links may be layered with snow this time of year, but die-hard golfers can get an early start on the golfing season this weekend at The 3rd North Coast Golf Show at the Renaissance Schaumburg Convention Center, 1551 N. Thor...

Susan Olsen stands in front of the floor-to-ceiling mirror, her body twisted in a corkscrew shape, and explains a movement that's been giving fits to a diverse group of dancers. "It's like ... just think that you have to unpretzel your body," Olsen ...

Looking into the future is a tricky business. Even in uncertain times, though, we feel at least a little obligated at the start of a new year to gaze through a hazy lens and try to make sense of what's ahead - even if it's murky and uncertain. Here...

The year 2009 was like a teenager's room: often confusing and frequently messy. Look in one corner and you see new schools and bridges and underpasses taking shape. Look in another and you see endless legal battles, ill-fated e-mails and mysterious ...

These days just about anything making headlines ends up being fodder for courtroom television show storylines. But in Naperville Central High School's new holiday play, it's the courtroom shows that provided a little inspiration. "Order in the Cour...

Sometimes the message of good will during the holidays can become too sugary sweet, say actors in this year's "Jacob Marley's Christmas Carol" at North Central College. "It can really get cheesy," said Richard Gross, 31, of Chicago, who plays Jacob...

For the 12 days of Christmas, the theater community gave to me - a multitude of holiday treats. The season may be woefully short of partridges in pear trees, but city and suburban stages over the next few weeks will be staging more "Christmas Carols...