Hugh Hart

Bob Odenkirk says his "Better Call Saul" character, Jimmy, has "deep feelings ... and he excavates those feelings to crank up the waterworks and manipulate people."

For Bob Odenkirk, Saul Goodman’s reptilian brain is to blame for character’s bad behavior

August 23, 2019 at 5:38 p.m.

Decades before comedian-turned-serious-actor Bob Odenkirk burrowed into dark territory as the title character in "Better Call Saul," he had an epiphany onstage at Chicago's Second City while performing with Joe...

NO NEED TO CHECK IN TO CHECK OUT THIS CHOCOLATE

August 11, 2021 at 2:06 p.m.

Never underestimate the power of chocolate. A taste of some chocolate pastries at the Drake Hotel 20 years ago inspired Marsha Gordon to start her own company, Chocolate Potpourri. Since...

MEXICO`S FINE ARTS ARE SHOWCASED IN NEW LAKE VIEW STORE

August 11, 2021 at 4:26 p.m.

Always looking for new, young talent, Oscar Campos' sister Pina scours the provinces of Mexico for obscure but gifted artisans. As a result, Campos' new Lake View store, Casa Campos,...

ON THEIR OWN IN A COLD, COLD WORLD

August 11, 2021 at 4:39 p.m.

Marcia and Terry Hartigan were teenagers when they met on the job, scooping ice cream at a Wilmette Baskin-Robbins. A few years later, the couple married and bought their own...

THEATRICS PLAY MAJOR ROLE IN NEW SHOP’S REPERTOIRE

August 11, 2021 at 4:58 p.m.

Danuta Harrison says she's shy, but you'd never guess it from looking at her furniture. On display at Meble, her new Wicker Park store, is a fanciful collection of one-of-a-kind...

CLASSIC TOBY JUGS FIND A HOME IN `DRY’ EVANSTON

August 11, 2021 at 4:26 p.m.

Toby Fillpot, the 18th Century English squire who drank himself to death at the age of 34, surely would have smirked at this irony: The country's largest collection of Toby...

A TASTE OF CAJUN COUNTRY IN THE NORTHERN SUBURBS

August 11, 2021 at 12:57 p.m.

They can't import Louisiana's balmy winters, but John and Karen Liautaud seem to have brought nearly everything else worth savoring about Cajun country. Music, food and a semitruck full of...

STELLA CHARMS SHOPPERS WITH CONTEMPORARY, WHIMSICAL GIFTS

August 19, 2021 at 1:56 a.m.

Gail Gilbert says she had a perfectly good reason for starting a gift store. "It stopped me from shopping," she explains with a smile. "You should see my house. Stuff...

A NORTHFIELD MORSEL FOR YOUR SWEET TOOTH

August 18, 2021 at 11:12 p.m.

When customers at Brasserie T restaurant in Northfield kept asking pastry chef Gale Gand for banana cream pie to take home, she had a standard reply: "Wait till we open...

INNERVIEW STOCKS WHIMSICAL WARES FOR THE HOME

August 11, 2021 at 7:19 p.m.

For almost a year, Rick Sellen ran what he cheerfully admits was one of the most confusing stores in the city. After taking over Amazing Merchandise, a Lake View "dollar...

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