Two stories for the price of one: To no one’s surprise, Barry Bonds’ wife has filed for legal separation. Liz Watson married the slugger in 1998 after Bonds’ first marriage to Susann Branco ended in a highly publicized divorce in 1994. If one is to believe Mark Fainaru-Wada and Lance Williams’ book “Game of Shadows” […]

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What is it with famous people dying from having sex while being suffocated? It may have been the cause of death of Michael Hutchence, then lead singer of INXS a couple of years ago. This week, it appears to have been the cause of death of actor David Carradine. Best known for the 1970s TV […]

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For the second time in three years I find myself completely indifferent to movies made from television shows of my youth. I was too old to have been caught up in the Transformers, so I was more than indifferent to that film (and to its upcoming sequel – and besides, both are directed by the […]

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It is appropriate with the Printer’s Row Book Fair happening this weekend (the Chicago Tribune wants to call it “Lit Fair” but it sounds like there will be bonfires or something, so I’ll stick with the old name) to take a minute to publicize a couple of new books that I’ve just finished reading that […]

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This weekend, the fourth edition of the Terminator franchise, “Terminator: Salvation” is released and from the reviews I’ve seen, it appears that it is mediocre: if you’re a big sci-fi or Terminator fan, you might like it; if not, it doesn’t have the same quality and characterization that made the first “Terminator” a great film, […]

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Since the Indignant Wife is originally from Canada, we often have visitors from Canada, or who live elsewhere in the world but were born in Canada. And it always falls to me to give them a tour of the city. We drive past the baseball parks, the Biograph Theater (nothing like blood and violence to […]

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For the first time since 1984 and only the second time since 1978, Bruce Springsteen and the E-Street Band will be playing in Chicago tonight and I won’t be there. In 1984, I was working at Comiskey Park as an Andy Frain usher at the same time that Bruce and the boys were playing Soldier […]

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