OFFBEAT: Here's your chance to win rare items from Liberace Museum in Las Vegas

Phil Potempa's daily entertainment news column.

OFFBEAT: Bee venom treatment prized by royalty and regular folk

Phil Potempa's daily entertainment news column.

MARC CHASE: Government's veil of secrecy threatens all of us

Have you felt the weightlessness in the past couple of weeks? It's the rapid descent of some of our most basic constitutional rights at both the federal and state levels of government.

OFFBEAT: Musical about circus wiz Barnum is fascinating fun

Phil Potempa's daily entertainment news column.

MARC CHASE: Threat of secession a warning shot for townships

A collective groan could be heard from Calumet Township recently as a law opening the door for Griffith to leave the township took effect in Indianapolis. Though it might sound ominous to some, the groan has the potential to be the harmony of forced government reform.

OFFBEAT: Chesterton actress ready for return of 'Glass Menagerie' in Chicago

Phil Potempa's daily entertainment news column.

OFFBEAT: League of Chicago Theatres celebrates 175 years of Windy City stage greats

Phil Potempa's daily entertainment news column.

OFFBEAT: Actor from Hammond ready to play NYC in 'Peter Pan' stage sequel

Phil Potempa's daily entertainment news column.

OFFBEAT: Profiles Theatre in Chicago launches summer with stage thriller 'In the Company of Men'

Phil Potempa's daily entertainment news column.

OFFBEAT: Sunday ends Chicago Lyric Opera fun run for 70th Anniversary 'Oklahoma!'

Phil Potempa's daily entertainment news column.

OFFBEAT: Author Kate Collins ready for character Abby's August wedding

Phil Potempa's daily entertainment news column.

MARC CHASE: New income tax not a license to fatten up

Lake County officials who just thrust a 1.5 percent local option income tax on county breadwinners would have us all believe the Lake County Government Center roof would have collapsed without the adoption of the tax.

OFFBEAT: Dr. Joyce Brothers, a famed brain, dies at age 85

Phil Potempa's daily entertainment news column.

OFFBEAT: Drury Lane and Rachel Rockwell's 'Oliver!' all the more entertaining

Phil Potempa's daily entertainment news column.

MARC CHASE: Living on a financial prayer no way to govern

The voice of fiscal conservatism is often lacking in Northwest Indiana forums, and I'm hoping to change that as I take on a twice-weekly column for The Times.