Rick Kogan: ‘A Complete Unknown’ focuses on Bob Dylan, but let’s not forget Michael Bloomfield
A few days ago was a perfect day to see a movie in a movie theater: steady rain falling, temperatures dipping into the 30s ...
Rick Kogan: To bet or not to bet? A Chicago sportswriter talks of the dangers of gambling.
At lunchtime earlier this week, Lester Munson could be found at Wrigley Field, not on the field but nearby, standing in front ...
Column: Scott Turow’s Rusty Sabich returns for more courtroom drama in ‘Presumed Guilty’
It usually takes author and attorney Scott Turow many years to rekindle the complicated relationship he has with his ...
Rick Kogan: The man who married a pony and other tales from the Jerry Springer show
It comes to me like a disturbing nightmare, images of a man admitting that he was married to a Shetland pony, which is ...
Opinion
Column: New ‘Between the Leaves’ magazine celebrates Chicago’s parks
My favorite park in the city is Sherman Park, extending south and west from the corner of Racine Avenue and 52nd Street. It is a beauty, filled with willows and wildlife, tall trees and flowing ...
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Rick Kogan: The man who married a pony and other tales from the Jerry Springer show
CHICAGO — It comes to me like a disturbing nightmare, images of a man admitting that he was married to a Shetland pony, which is sitting next to him. But after shaking off sleep and becoming ...
‘Division Street Revisited’ resurrects the spirit and stories of Studs Terkel
Have you ever finished a Studs Terkel book and wondered, whatever happened to the people he interviewed? A seven-episode ...
Daywatch: Businesses close in protest of immigration crackdown
A churro shop in Pilsen closed its doors yesterday. So did a Mexican grocer in Chicago Heights. The owner of several Mexican restaurants in Elgin, himself the son of immigrants, shut his business for ...