Mark Bazer

Well, it was nice knowing my family, but now I've got an iPhone. For the uninitiated, the iPhone is the cell phone + iPod + organizer + portable game console...

Ever since our semi-regular segment "Ask the Man Who Doesn't Understand the Economy" began, the economy has steadily worsened. We'd like to take some credit. Here is yet another installment....

Participatory journalism -- you know, where a reporter plays baseball with the big-league team or performs heart surgery at the local hospital -- has never been my thing. My thing...

"There are no two finer words in the English language than 'encased meats,' my friend." That's the motto of the mouthwatering, taste-bud-dazzling, mood-lifting, wait-in-line-ability-testing, foie-gras-ban-defying North Side hot dog joint...

With the news that the New York Yankees' Alex Rodriguez took steroids (and the photo of Olympic gold medalist Michael Phelps using a bong appearing a week prior), attention is...

I'll never forget where I was when I found out I had salmonella. Forgive me. I've always wanted to see if I could get away with beginning a column that...

Oh, man, you shoulda been there on Tuesday. Forget that mother-bleepin' Obama's poor excuse for a rally in that cliche-of-all-cliches location, Grant Park, back on that gorgeous-schmorgeous November evening. You...

Kids, it's said, have a way of putting things in perspective. And I'm here to tell you: It's true! Here I'd been obsessing about the economy, the election and whether...

With the financial world turned upside down, the House yet to vote on a government bailout and the U.S. now 95 percent owned by China, it seemed like a good...

Dear celebrities: It's your candidate, Barack Obama, here. I'm writing to you because I wanted to thank you from the bottom of my heart for the tremendous amount of love...