Tammy Faye Messner

Your Stylist: Get ready for dramatic, intense and spider-like eyelashes

2011-07-15 16:32:15

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Robbie Conal: Political animal

2010-01-16 00:00:00

I'm always flabbergasted by the foaming fury with which some people regard the painter and guerrilla poster artist Robbie Conal. Over the years, letters-to-the-editor writers have said, "Conal is a cancer on society" and, "He should be behind bars, not in...

Requiem: 2007 passings of note

2007-12-29 00:00:00

Among the major notables who passed from the scene this year, three of the most famous -- two masters of cinema and a genius of football -- died on the same day: July 30. Two others -- a historic Russian leader and a U.S. chronicler of war -- left us...

Death by numbers

2007-08-18 00:00:00

On any given day, an average of 148,000 people will die. That means over a million people have died in the last week. Nearly 5 million have died since around this time last month, which, incidentally, was exactly when we were briefly bombarded with the...

Design for living, separately

2005-02-17 00:00:00

If Fenton Bailey and Randy Barbato ever "go Hollywood," they'd have to leave town. Instead, the uncompromising documentarians live and work in the heart of Hollywood, the city — Bailey in a 1924 English Arts and Crafts bungalow, built by a...

RuPaul’s All Stars Drag Race: A recap of episode 2: RuPaul’s Gaff-in

2012-10-30 16:32:46

News briefs for Tuesday, May 8

2012-05-08 04:07:00

CIA thwarts new al-Qaida underwear bomb plot WASHINGTON (AP) — At the FBI’s explosives lab in Virginia, experts are picking apart a sophisticated new al-Qaida bomb to figure out whether it could have slipped past airport security and taken...

Redemption

2012-05-02 00:00:00

Charles Colson died the other day at 80, a respected and even revered evangelist in the mold of Billy Graham. By the time of his death, he may have been the country's leading prison reformer, too, working to change men rather than just punish them....

'RuPaul's Drag Race' opens with the Ru-pocalypse

2012-01-30 20:24:00

Strap in, squirrelfriends, because "RuPaul's Drag Race" is back and Chicago has three queens to scream for all season long. (By the way, this entire recap is one long spoiler. Consider yourself alerted.) We start the first episode with introductions to...

Orlando Fringe Festival review: ‘Preacherman’

2011-05-22 04:36:51

10 things you might not know about famous evangelists

2007-11-25 00:00:00

Christian evangelists can be forgiven for feeling under siege these days. Amid charges of runaway personal spending, Richard Roberts resigned as president of Oral Roberts University in Tulsa, and six tax-exempt ministries were recently asked by Sen....

Mega-church has talks on gay issues

2008-06-09 00:00:00

For Dotti Berry, healing the rift between religious conservatives and gay-marriage advocates could be as simple as replacing both sides' stereotypes with a human face. "You can't hate someone whose story you know," Berry said Sunday in Fox River Grove....

The televangelist turned reality star and gay icon died of colon cancer in 2007. She was 65.

2012-09-05 07:20:57

In honor of the late evangelist-turned-surreality-TV-star, we give Tammy to Tammy Faye Bakker , seen here in this 2002 file photo.

2011-04-07 10:56:19

on the southwest corner of Belmont Avenue and Clark Street. And on the blocks heading west from there are such ubiquitous urban oases as Jamba Juice and Potbelly.

2009-05-17 00:00:00