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Score connects volunteer mentors with rising entrepreneurs
SCOREChicago, which connects volunteer mentors with rising entrepreneurs, is seeing more minorities and seniors age 65 and older starting businesses. So says Douglas Nohe, chairman of the not-for-profit organization, with...
Startups make it their mission to serve other startups
Noted in Chicago's startup ecosystem: plenty of startups that exist to serve other startups. Ensemble, founded in August by George Deeb, bills itself as a one-stop digital-services base linked to...
WHAT WE DRINK: Martinis rule, with male and female tweaks
Long gone are the days when so many guys drank shots of bourbon with a beer back and women ordered drinks that came with little umbrellas. "The drinking preferences of...
MALE BEHAVIORS AS THEATER
Guys will be guys, especially in Las Vegas at a bachelor party with no wives or girlfriends around to monitor their behavior. That's the premise of Scott Woldman's new play,...
An expert has high hopes for the new 007
In real life change is inevitable. In the fictitious movie life of James Bond, the licensed-to-kill counterspy for England's Secret Service, only the actors change. The Bond character is reliably...
How Trump rates the businesswoman
In the brutally competitive world of big business, gender may or may not be a factor in success. Though theoretically there should be no difference in the male versus the...
Humor psychologist explains why most women just don’t get it
What are you guys laughing at? And what kind of jokes do you tell? The usual, said Ed Dunkelblau, a Chicago-based clinical psychologist and psychotherapist who is an expert on...
So you don’t know how to act . . .
Shakespeare wrote that all the world's a stage and all of us are players. Exactly! For Chicago area amateurs who want to sharpen their dramatic skills to improve their theatrical...
Field report: France
The Guy Page figures it's important for American men to keep tabs on our brethren abroad, particularly the European guys, who seem to get a lot of credit in the...
A HIGHWOOD TRADITION
For a town with a population that never exceeded 5,000, north suburban Highwood has a rich history of accomplished male athletes. So 18 months ago, Lisa Cervac, project director of...