Gary Dretzka

NOT A DOCTOR BUT PLAYS ONE ON TV Returning from heart surgery, David Letterman brought his doctors and nurses onto the stage for a moving opening to his first show...

It would be difficult to find a show messier, louder and more obsessively hip than "Blue Man Group: Live at Luxor." Last week, though, when "De La Guarda" opened at...

No one should have been surprised Sunday if they had overheard trainer Bob Baffert humming "My Old Kentucky Home" as he walked away from Santa Anita. After winning both of...

Coming off last winter's exhaustive pursuit of the new millennium, it would be understandable if something as mundane as a 50th anniversary failed to stir widespread excitement. But, for those...

Fresh off his first victory in last week's Arlington Million, trainer Bobby Frankel returned to Southern California bent on extending his run of good luck in a race he practically...

Harvey and Nancy Vanier, who have been on the Illinois racing scene for the last two decades, scored their first major victory of the year Sunday. The race was Arlington...

Morgan Moss, a self-described teenage rebel in Highland Park, had a wreck of a bedroom and attitude to spare. His father, an art consultant, was fed up. Alan Moss took...

The hot-button issue at this summer's edition of the Television Critics Association press tour, not surprisingly, is the networks' embrace of reality-based and voyeuristic programming, especially "Survivor" and "Big Brother."...

The Magic & Movie Hall of Fame, here on the Strip, is temporarily dark, so it isn't as easy as it once was to learn the history of ventriloquism. Conveniently,...

Almost everyone in town agrees that the pilot process is, at best, unwieldy, and more often than not totally unreliable. Still, no one seems to be in any hurry to...