Eunice Johnson

Zondra Hughes, 01.05.2010

Editor, Author, Living The Ebony Life: E-Mails From the Plantation

Eunice was the most Fashionable of all Fair Ladies / Who knew the beauty of Black.

Keeping Score in Chicago Episode 31: 2009: The Final Score

Mark Konkol and Todd Fooks, 12.29.2009

Richard Roeper dishes on the best and worst movies of the 2009, why Spider-man is the next De Niro, and quashes his overblown Internet beef with Roger Ebert.

Audrey Niffenegger on "The Interview Show"

Mark Bazer, 12.30.2009

Mark Bazer writes a syndicated humor column and hosts The Interview Show in Chicago

Audrey Niffenegger, author of the new Her Fearful Symmetry, as well as The Time Traveler's Wife, stopped by "The Interview Show."

New Year's Sparklers: Bubbles for Every Budget

Ari Bendersky, 12.29.2009

Ari Bendersky is the co-creator of the iPhone app foodie.

You don't have to splurge on Champagne (but you'll enjoy it if you do), and can find some great deals with wine from Alsace to New Mexico (yes, you read that right).

Justice Takes a Holiday When Judge Orders E2 Club Defendants to Go Directly to Jail

Deborah Douglas, 12.24.2009

Chicago-based journalist and professor of journalism

Justice took the day off Wednesday when Cook County Associate Judge Daniel Gillespie ordered Dwain Kyles and Calvin Hollins to go to directly to jail.

Memo to Sen. Burris: Grab Some Goodies for Illinois While the Grabbing's Still Good

Carol Felsenthal, 12.21.2009

Chicago-based journalist

Illinois, arguably among the most corrupt states in the union -- our governors tend to go to prison -- is teetering as close to insolvency as any senator's state.

Avatar Park

Michael Jones, 12.22.2009

Read, surf, think

I didn't feel as that 162 minutes had elapsed by the end. But, then again, I didn't feel much of anything before, during, or after the movie.

Great Lakes' Asian Carp Crisis Headed to US Supreme Court

Scott Dodd, 12.21.2009

Environmental journalist

Michigan is suing Illinois, the Chicago sanitation district and the U.S. government, seeking an injunction that closes two locks in the canal that connects the Illinois River and Lake Michigan.

Exile Nation: Drugs, Prisons, Politics & Spirituality

Charles Shaw, 12.17.2009

Writer And Activist

Cook County Jail is so awful that for many of its detainees a quick guilty plea and a trip to the penitentiary, even for twice as long, is preferable to staying in the County.