There are many Phil Rosenthals. This one has been a Chicago Tribune columnist since 2005. A working journalist since age 17, he is a University of Wisconsin at Madison grad. He’s certain few people read bios, so never mind the honors he won as a sports writer, TV critic and then features columnist at the Los Angeles Daily News and how he came home in 1996, serving as a Chicago Sun-Times sports columnist then its TV critic. Ditto for his work in TV, radio and pizza. But that time he modeled swimsuits for Sports Illustrated cover model Vendela is actually a decent story.
Whatever is the opposite of "like a kid in a candy store" is a fair description of me at a typical mobile phone retail outlet.
The Michelin Guide this week serves up its judges' annual assessment of Chicago-area restaurants. As always, it should be a hefty helping of red meat — or well-prepared portobello mushroom — for those whose mouths water at the prospect of arguing whether this place is that good or...
Shake Shack threw open its doors at the corner of Ohio and Rush streets on Tuesday, and threw off a bit of its mystique.
I've probably said it before, but originality is overrated.
Here's to you, Rikk Wilde, you big, sweaty, hyperventilating sales genius. The World Series error you were pegged with after Game 7 on Wednesday night had been changed to a hit by Thursday morning.
Chicago temperatures in the 70s this week be damned, it's beginning to look a lot like Christmas.
AbbVie got hosed on its aborted Shire deal. Let's get that up top. It's also very hard to feel sorry for it.
Given that he has talked about hastening newspapers' transition from print to digital practically from the moment he got the keys to the Chicago Sun-Times and its sister publications almost three years ago, no one should be surprised Wrapports Chairman Michael Ferro would be willing to shed the...