Charles Storch

Urban Gateways: Center for Arts Education said Tuesday it will hold all of its matinees for children this season at Millennium Park's Harris Theater for Music and Dance. Tim Sauers,...

The PBS Kids Sprout channel has said goodbye to the host of "The Good Night Show," Melanie Martinez, because of two questionable videos, both titled "Technical Virgin," she appeared in...

After three eventful years as chief executive of Alexian Brothers AIDS Ministry in Chicago and Waukegan, Merrill Kenna is resigning, effective Aug. 18. Kenna said he is moving to Thailand...

Chicago gospel and R&B singer Mavis Staples has received the nation's highest honor for folk and traditional artists. She was named Thursday as one of 11 recipients of this year's...

In the season finale of "Lost," the character Desmond says he carries around Charles Dickens' "Our Mutual Friend" because he wants that to be the last book he reads before...

Q. Part of last Monday's "24" involved a special switch on a commercial plane that would send a "We've been hijacked!" signal to air-traffic control. Does such a switch really...

By the numbers Inception of project: 01.1999. Artist: Anish Kapoor, an internationally known native of Bombay living in London. Work: "Cloud Gate," the artist's first permanent public art in the...

A new national study of American readers has found a warm place in their souls for poetry, even though their brains go mostly blank on verse. The report from the...

Chicagoans may view this week a sample of the prized Refco Inc. contemporary photography collection that is to be auctioned in the coming weeks at Christie's in New York. Christie's...

Wanted: an educational visionary with the political skills of a senator and the diplomatic polish of a secretary of state. The successful candidate will be a scholar of national prominence,...