Even though we're a week and a half away from Thanksgiving, it's beginning to look a lot like Christmas.

I became addicted to the movie-going experience in the 1970s, when I attended multiple screenings of films such as 'Chinatown', 'Jaws', 'Star Wars' and the original 'Rocky'.

The truth is that our way of celebrating the Christmas season does spring from myriad cultures and sources, from St. Nicholas to Coca-Cola advertising campaigns.

I've been playing Texas Hold 'em and other forms of poker since I was about 12.

I grew up in Dolton, just south of Chicago, about a 20-minute drive from old Comiskey Park.

Well, I think one of the reasons Chicago became so popular as a filmmaker location is because New York had been used so many times that Chicago, I think, was rediscovered maybe in the late '60s, early '70s for a long time as a new location.

When we root-root-root for the home team, we're rooting for our home as much as the team.