The Fall

Selected home-video releases: "Baby Mama" Tina Fey and Amy Poehler team up for a Hollywood rarity, a female buddy flick that actually found an audience. Fey plays a business executive who can't have kids but decides she desperately wants a child, and so...

In his 22 years as a major league hitting coach, Terry Crowley has not faced a challenge like the one that awaits him with Adam Loewen, the former Orioles pitcher who's trying to save his career by becoming a position player. Crowley usually works with...

Steven Bovio, senior project manager for Kolter Homes in the Orlando region, said this morning that Grande Oaks at Heathrow in Seminole County will start pre-construction sales next month for new three- and four-bedroom town homes that average 2,300...

As part of its 20th anniversary season, Profiles Theatre will present the first full Chicago production of Jason Wells' "Men of Tortuga," developed at Steppenwolf Theatre's 2005 First Look Festival. Also on the slate: the Midwest premiere of "The Thugs"...

Ever since someone fired a gunshot through the front door of her West Pullman house last year, Elonda Jackson made sure the kids in her home would hang out only on the back porch. That was where Percy Rounds, 15, was sitting with his cousin Monday...

Even as he touts his base of small donors, Barack Obama is relying heavily on well-heeled contributors who have given $28,500 or more each to Democratic Party committees that will campaign on his behalf. Obama aides emphasized that the average donation...

TIM PRESLEY nearly flinches when the word "genre" spills out of an interviewer's mouth and hovers in the heat of an Eagle Rock afternoon. "Oh, no, we don't want to hear that," the singer-guitarist for Darker My Love says. "We don't want to fall under...

KATHY GREEN has hardly been able to sleep the last few weeks. Her big day is almost here. She's filled with anticipation for the Friday launch of "” the new big-screen adaptation of the Fox TV drama series about the unexplainable and mysterious....

Just when you thought the presidential race was hitting the summer doldrums, here come the dueling political paper backs: Random House Inc. is releasing mass market editions of Sen. Barack Obama's "The Audacity of Hope" (Vintage) and Sen. John McCain's...

A judge signaled Tuesday that he would order the release in the coming months of much of the secret testimony in the notorious espionage case against Julius and Ethel Rosenberg. But U.S. District Judge Alvin K. Hellerstein said he would make an exception...

Southern California airports faced substantial reductions in flight traffic and revenue after two major carriers Tuesday announced they would cut service at Los Angeles International and Ontario airports this fall. Citing slowing demand and high fuel...