STRAY CAST: The fake arty trees fit 31st Street Harbor about as well as gobies do the Great Lakes; and are nearly insulting as the...

``The Dead Foxes'' would be a perfect name for an all-girl Goth band. ``The Dead Foxes'' at Metro tonight. Can you envision it? Before...

By Dale Bowman STRAY CAST: A crosstown World Series is more likely than Illinois stocking walleye in Lake Michigan. Yeah, that is Mike...

By Dale Bowman We had talked about doing a Stray Casts day in Indianapolis at the Ford Boat, Sport and Travel Show, but that will wait...

By Dale Bowman My Sunday column for the Sun-Times was on Alicia Beattie and her study of mudpuppies around Chicago. For Stray Casts, I...