Every goddamn day: 04/30/25

  "The Death of Socrates," by  Jacques Louis David  (Metropolitan Museum of Art)       My colleague Tina Sfondeles wrote an import...

2012 Tesla Model S       The Chicago Auto Show opens to the public Saturday at McCormick Place, so I reached back into my almost limitless ...

     “I’m going to visit my mother,” I’ll say, then catch myself: “My parents. ” An easy mistake to make. Because while my mother, 87, is al...

Jimmy's Woodlawn Tap,  1172 E. 55th Street      They roll the sidewalks up early in Hyde Park. Surprisingly so, for a college town. The ...

"The Treachery of Images," Rene Magritte (Los Angeles County Museum of Art)      So much negative going on. Let’s focus on the pos...

                           Kevin Winter/Getty Images for the Recording Academy      "Do you want to watch the Grammys?" my wife as...

     “Was I a man or a jerk?” Saul Bellow asked on his deathbed in 2005, as depicted on the opening page of Zachary Leader’s two-part biogra...