Lisa Balde

For 16 days starting Saturday, 6 million people will descend on Munich, Germany, with one common goal: drink beer in the name of Oktoberfest. More than 4,500 miles away in...

With football season about to start, there's only one thing on our minds. And this year, for once, it's not a quarterback controversy. No, this season we finally can focus...

If all this newfound heat has elevated your summertime wanderlust (but not your cashflow to allow plane tickets to, oh, Belgium), it's high time to take a day trip. Pack...

On your mark (summer officially starts Sunday), get set (Chicago summers only last, like, 20 weeks tops), GO! It's time to cram a winter's worth of warm-weather fun into summer's...

Folks used to say that all you need to grow a garden is a little patch of dirt to call your own. Turns out it's even simpler: In the city,...

Nine years in the making and it finally opens Saturday: the Art Institute of Chicago's 264,000-square-foot Modern Wing. It's dubbed one of the biggest architectural additions in the city, and...

As sure as the Chicago River swallows its annual dose of green dye, St. Paddy's Day revelers will toast the Emerald Isle with a pint of beer -- Guinness, green-tinted...

We've had Belgian beers and pork aplenty at The Bristol and The Publican. We've swooned over notable chefs at L20 and Graham Elliot. And we loved the alfresco scenes at...

Before you resign yourself to the reality of the "f" word ("fall") and pull the plug on summer fun, check out this crop of late-blooming events that will keep summer...

The Bears have a starting quarterback. Your teacher friends are groaning about returning to work. And Halloween decorations are about 30 seconds away from hitting the shelves at CVS. Face...