On big snow days in Chicago, you get a barometer of how much a business cares when you see its response to the storm.
It was nearly a year ago when I first saw "How's that Hope and Change Working Out For You?" on a bumper sticker.
Over the weekend, Mayor Daley refused to join the chorus of politicos calling for Scott Lee Cohen to please go away.
I'm not sure when National Signing Day became National Signing Day, but raise your hand if you have qualms about a "tradition" in which elite footballers from high schools across the country hold press conferences to announce which university they'll be attending.
Nearly a half-decade after the runaway success of "Open Water" (2004), a filmmaker has come up with a clever variation on the theme of a young couple left behind in shark-infested waters, hoping and praying to be rescued before they're eaten alive. Writer-director Adam Green delivers a taut thriller with "Frozen," with a young couple and a third wheel stranded high in the air on a ski lift, hoping and praying to be rescued before they're turned into human Popsicles.
Join us for the Big Game Feb. 7! You see all kinds of ads with cryptic copy like that leading up to the Super Bowl because the NFL has trademarked the term and will come after you if you haven't paid a licensing fee for using the term "Super Bowl" in a sweepstakes, restaurant promotion, etc., etc.
Publicity-shy attorney Gloria Allred has emerged from her shell to say she will lodge complaints with the Federal Communications Commission and the Federal Trade Commission if there are misleading elements in the pro-life ad featuring college football great Tim Tebow that CBS will air during the Super Bowl.
Kathryn Bigelow is the first female director to win the Directors Guild of America honors, taking home the honors last Saturday night for "The Hurt Locker."
The sign at the White Castle at 79th and Stony Island says it all: MAKE YOUR VALENTINE'S RESERVATIONS TODAY
Whether it's the latest Scorsese film or "Saw XXXII: Cut and Run," I go into every screening experience with an open mind. Of course expectations are higher for certain films, but there's always hope.
That Drew Peterson, what a character. He's given us such great material!
I've never understood why anyone would want to go to a club where a "celebrity" was making a paid appearance.
Given that Conan O'Brien is only 46 years old and he's going to be back on TV before 2010 plays out, his "Tonight Show" farewell monologue didn't exactly carry the pop culture weight of Johnny Carson going gracefully into that good late night -- but it was still one of the classiest exit speeches we've ever seen.
You gotta love the headline from the Drudge Report on Wednesday, over a photo of a victorious Scott Brown:
The "punch 90999/text HAITI" movement is a huge success. Now, the problem is trying to determine which fund-raising efforts and stories are legit, and which are hoaxes and/or urban legends, and by the way how much of a lowlife do you have to be to initiate an untrue story or perpetuate a scam related to a tragedy that claimed thousands of lives?
By the time you read this, I wouldn't be surprised if Rush Limbaugh and Bill O'Reilly are criticizing all those Hollywood celebrities who are donating big chunks of cash or planning a telethon to raise funds for Haitian earthquake relief.
Leave it to Rush Limbaugh to engage in race-baiting as he instantly politicized the devastating earthquake in Haiti:
"I sincerely believe . . . delaying the 'Tonight Show' . . . to accommodate another comedy program will seriously damage . . . the greatest franchise in the history of broadcasting." -- Conan O'Brien, refusing to move to a later time slot.
When I asked for your take on the whole "cougar" trend, I heard from dozens of cougars, men dating cougars, pumas and don't-you-dare-call-me-a-cougar(s).
Within the same hour last Thursday morning, I received text messages about a man who had passed away -- and a man who had tried to take his own life.
