Snow Day

In honor of school closings all across the area today, a babysitting suggestion from the brilliant Saverio Truglia (flickr alias: The Dark Slide). According to Truglia, the Ace Hardware brand of duct tape works best for all of your child-rearing and furniture-building needs...

Bye-Bye, Kevin

By Penny Pollack & Jeff Ruby

Kevin (9 W. Hubbard St.; 312-595-0055), after six years in River North, is closing. "There are too many Mondays, Tuesdays, Wednesdays and Thursdays, too many Januarys and Julys and Augusts," said Kevin and Alan Shikami, the owners, in an e-mail. "You wait for the business to come back, but the years pass and the sales decline. We have put the restaurant on the market and at the end of February we will close the doors." This is sad news, especially...

Week 37: Ten True Things I Wouldn’t Have Believed a Year Ago

1. By the last trimester, a pregnant woman's breasts may leak a few drops of colostrum (practice milk). It's thick and yellow and has the consistency of wood glue.

2. Sometimes a drop or two of blood leaks out. Blood.

3. During pregnancy, the average woman's uterus expands up to five hundred times its normal size...

Dukakis 2008, Chicago Onscreen

By Rebecca Little

Before the boys take the field on Sunday, women take centerstage in local productions featuring some seriously heavyweight talent.

Patty Duke—yep, that Patty Duke—performs in Blue Yonder, a series of monologues about women from all walks of life, at the Theatre of Western Springs (4384 Hampton Ave., Western Springs; 708-246-3380). Shows run 8 p.m. Friday the 1st, 2:30 and 8 p.m. Saturday the 2nd, and 2:30 p.m. Sunday the 3rd. Tickets are $55, plus an additional $25 for a post-show reception with Duke. On Monday the 4th at 7:30 p.m., the actress gets personal in An Evening with Patty Duke and talks about her career and struggles with...

A Second Wave

By Nora O'Donnell

Sociologist Eric Klinenberg's book about the 1995 Chicago heat wave moves into the theatre with a script by local playwright Steven Simoncic. Read more

Beauty and the Beat

By Katherine Millett

Jade Simmons Part of Ravinia's Rising Stars series. February 29th at 8 p.m. Read more

A Family Affair

By Dennis Rodkin

Yale Prof designed house for his sister and brother-in-law Read more

At the Alter

By Dennis Rodkin

Another round of new housing means more change at CHA site Read more

Not The QB

By Dennis Rodkin

The other Jim McMahon scores with pricey, elegant residences Read more