“This is a living thing,” Packie said. “It’s 100 years old or older, and it’s nice that it’s preserved. It’s got a new form.” Packie said that sculpting a very realistic human form out of a tree trunk ...

In Nov. 2012, Judge Carr sentenced 32-year-old Shena Hardin to stand at an intersection wearing a sign essentially calling herself an "idiot" after she was caught on videotape driving on a ...

Chicagoans is a first-person account from off the beaten track, as told to Anne Ford. This week’s Chicagoan is Jeff Williams, traditional sign painter. “Right as I got out of high school, I ...

Lester Carey, New Orleans old-school sign painter has died Word spread this week that Lester Carey, who painted charmingly quirky signs in an increasingly generic world, died on Saturday (March 4 ...

HE was on the bus in the shadow of the Big Swan, emotions peeling away, thoughts scattered. Just sitting there, islanded by time. Packie Bonner at the World Cup. Saturday in Niigata re-wound so ...