The culinary spirit of the 1950s lives on in downtown Irving, where an old-fashioned soda fountain still chugs along serving patty melts and chocolate malts. Big State Fountain Grill has been around ...

The year was 1973. The Watergate scandal began to destroy Richard Nixon, Vietnam withdrawal was on the immediate horizon and America needed a win — anywhere it could find one. America desperately ...

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“[‘A Jukebox for the Algonquin’ is] not a play about old people,” says Chicago/Skokie-based playwright Paul Stroili, “it’s a play about people who have just lived longer.” After witnessing the raucous ...

How many of us, facing an unappealing summer job, were told by our parents that we should stick with it because we would somehow benefit from the experience? Skokie-based playwright and actor Paul ...

Dan Coulter was 12 years old when he bought his first jukebox. The Bloomington kid wasn’t very good in academics but he liked music and he was good with his hands. When he heard that a friend had a ...

At the dawn of the Cold War, a U.S. Air Force Weather Service WB-29 reconnaissance plane collected airborne radioactive particles while flying from Japan to Alaska — making the startling September ...