Neil_Steinberg.0.jpg

Neil Steinberg

Columnist

Neil Steinberg is a columnist at the Chicago Sun-Times.

Classes disrupted, fellow students threatened, clashes with police, and the yo-yo story has to wait.
The two-part, four-hour film on WTTW comes just in time for the 750th anniversary of a key event in Dante’s life.
What to do when a senior care facility separates you from your husband? Well sing, at first. Then move.
The continuing bloody war in Gaza — the 33,000 Palestinians killed and the unknown fate of Israeli hostages — casts a pall over Passover celebrations.
Morgan Park High School trumpeters riff on the most popular brass instrument.
Chicago Symphony Orchestra musicians help Conn-Selmer’s quest for the perfect instrument.
The WLS National Barn Dance, which predated the Opry by two years, was first broadcast 100 years ago Friday, on April 19, 1924.
The play uses “hay” — actually raffia, derived from palm leaves — to cover the stage for each performance.
Edelstein, a popular actor on TV, mines art from the piles of old photographs that everyone is burdened with eventually.