Every goddamn day: 07/01/26

    Years ago, I went to an impressive production of "The Elephant Man" at the Theatre Building on Belmont Avenue. In a big top se...

     Technology is a friend to women. Oh, it helps men, too, with its laser levels and Helix 5 Fishfinders. But society places particular bu...

     T he Gay Pride Parade is today. Which is a relief. Normally there is quite a bit of advance hoopla, and this year was so quiet I began ...

    God, these computer systems are maddening.     So Thursday night my Apple iMac asks me, in a little box in the upper right corner of the...

       Consider the information you ignore. The pages swiped away in a blink. The emails — for old fogies like us that even use email — hund...

  Saint Jerome and the Angel, by Simon Vouet          My wife went to the White Sox game Wednesday. Which caused a twinge of envy, both for ...

  Chicago Public Schools board member Ellen Rosenfeld.      With the state of Israel being continually mugged in the court of public opinion...