Mark Caro

Mark Caro is a freelance writer for the Chicago Tribune.

Wife remembers chef Homaro Cantu: ‘We thought he was invincible’

May 23, 2019 at 12:46 a.m.

Although chef Homaro Cantu was facing a stressful convergence of business challenges, friends and family said the 38-year-old owner of the internationally renowned restaurant Moto never quit projecting his trademark...

Famed chef Homaro Cantu, owner of Moto, found dead on Northwest Side

May 23, 2019 at 12:45 a.m.

Homaro Cantu, whose creative blending of science and fine dining garnered international attention for his West Loop restaurant Moto, was found dead Tuesday afternoon on the Northwest Side, according to...

Cubs victory song contest: We have a winner

August 19, 2019 at 1:21 p.m.

Scaffolding aside, the opening of a baseball season is a time of happy possibilities, and in that spirit we came up with a contest: Create a new song to be...

The Cubs celebrate a win over the Braves in July 2014.

Go song go: Picking the next Cubs hit

May 16, 2019 at 12:53 a.m.

With tens of thousands of votes cast in the initial rounds, we've reached the final stretch of the Tribune's Cubs victory song contest. We still think Steve Goodman's "Go Cubs...

Zineb El Rhazoui, a writer for the Paris satirical newspaper Charlie Hebdo, discussed the massacre there in January and the remaining staff's determination to carry on during a visit last week to Chicago.

Charlie Hebdo writer vows to work on despite death threats

August 18, 2019 at 11:51 p.m.

Zineb El Rhazoui was vacationing in her native Morocco on Jan. 7 when two gunmen allied with an Islamist militant group burst into her Paris workplace, the French satirical newspaper...

Graham Moore on Sunday is congratulated for winning an Oscar for best adapted screenplay. The Chicagoan wrote "The Imitation Game."

Oscar-winning writer Graham Moore, of Chicago, discusses his depression

April 6, 2019 at 3:38 a.m.

Growing up in Chicago's Lincoln Park as a movie fan with Hollywood aspirations, Graham Moore had rehearsed this moment many times. Those practiced Oscar speeches, delivered into shampoo bottles, never...

"The Help" costars and previous nominees Viola Davis and Octavia Spencer make their way to the ball.

Oscars party lesson: Don’t attempt selfies with Beyonce

May 25, 2019 at 6:41 p.m.

So anyway the Governors Ball is first on the party circuit because it's right upstairs from the Dolby Theatre, where the Oscars take place. I was late-ish getting there because...

Jared Leto arrives at the Oscars on Sunday, Feb. 22, 2015, at the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles.

Stars hit the Oscar red carpet, despite the rain

May 25, 2019 at 6:41 p.m.

The sun came out for last year's Oscars red carpet despite a weekend of torrential rain, but this year the tents were up and good thing too. At one point...

Actor Adrien Brody attends the 2015 Independent Spirit Awards in Santa Monica.

‘Birdman,’ Linklater, other Oscars favorites win Spirit Awards

May 25, 2019 at 6:41 p.m.

Seeing a winners' list that includes "Birdman," Michael Keaton, Julianne Moore, J.K. Simmons, Patricia Arquette and Richard Linklater, you might think you're reading tomorrow's news today. That's because this year's...

An Oscar statue stands on the red carpet as preparations are made for the 86th Academy Awards in Los Angeles.

Os-Caro quiz: Test your Oscar knowledge

June 16, 2018 at 4:20 a.m.

Welcome to the silver statuette edition of the Os-Caro Quiz as it marks 25 years of taunting-- we mean challenging-- you with oh-so-beguiling Academy Awards trivia. This thing has been...

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