If you read my most recent column about Fall, the harvest and the English folksong John Barleycorn, below is a more detailed look at the ancient poem. John Barleycorn is an old English folksong that ...

Steve Winwood had left the Spencer Davis Group and seen Traffic and Blind Faith break up before he turned 22. But after recording a few tracks for a solo album in which he played all of the ...

Friday night may be the John Barleycorn’s curtain call at the hands of Luisa Hanson, but supporters of the famed pub/institution have not given up hope. At this point in the game, it seems all but ...

Ashok Selvam is the former James Beard Award-winning regional editor for Eater’s Midwest region, in charge of coverage in Chicago, Detroit, and the Twin Cities. He’s a native Chicagoan and had been ...

The 400-seat spot (about 320 for dining; 80 at the bars), aims to open in mid-November and will generally feel like Barleycorn’s other locations in regard to the food and drink, but will have a bit ...

Traffic reinvented themselves repeatedly over the course of close to three decades together, but perhaps never more dramatically than with John Barleycorn Must Die. The deluxe version of the title ...

Traffic to Release Deluxe Edition of John Barleycorn Must Die March 8 Deluxe Import Includes Alternate Takes, Live Tracks & Previously Unreleased Material Originally a project where Steve Winwood ...

On the first page of his autobiographical novel John Barleycorn, published in 1913, Jack London confesses to his second wife, Charmian, that despite his misgivings, he voted for women's suffrage ...

Schaumburg’s John Barleycorn restaurant is ceasing its day-to-day operations, but will remain open exclusively as a venue for private parties and special events, its owner announced Tuesday. The ...

Imagine what it would look like if the Wrigleyville standbys Chen’s and John Barleycorn had a barbecue restaurant baby. That’s probably a pretty accurate picture of the unnamed project planned for ...