Author Archives: Anonymous

I just received the review of the book Pushed written by Noah Berlatsky [“The Obstetric-Industrial Complex,” June 29] and I cannot agree more with Mr. Berlatsky. We have had five children born in a hospital in Lake County, three miscarriages at the same hospital, our sixth live child born at home with a Certified Professional […]

In your June 8 edition, Section 2, page 14, your [Critic’s Choice] Private Fears in Public Places, there is a picture of Mads Mikkelsen accompanying the print. I went and saw the movie last night. He is not in said film. Anonymous The editors reply: You’re correct, and we apologize for the error. The still […]

Once again someone feeling that they are of such great literary importance has chosen to take something very simple and overanalyze it [“A Little Secret About The Secret,” June 1]. Why must you “greats” always assume that people are so gullible and simpleminded and that we could not possibly be able to logically apply the […]

While I certainly do not want to see Washington Park be home to the Olympics, that would be a shame, Ben Joravsky failed to win any points for the story [The Works, May 11]. It comes [off] as the big white mayor abusing poor black citizens, which is hardly news at all in the city […]

Mr. Conroy, Thank you for doing your job, as a member of the press and getting this news out there to people like myself, who otherwise would not have heard it or seen it. You are an excellent journalist and that is a phenomenal article [“Killed on Camera” by John Conroy, April 20]. What resources […]

I recall Rosenbaum once slammed Beyond Rangoon because it was another Hollywood movie that put a white hero(ine) at the center of crisis in a nonwhite world. He called it cultural imperialism or something. Yet Blood Diamond does the same thing. You get a white hero falling in love with white heroine in the jungles […]

In her review of Pegasus Players’ The Upper Room [“True but Not Genuine,” March 11], Kelly Kleiman climactically lectures, “One of the hardest things about writing historical fiction is to wear your research lightly, recognizing that not everything you’ve learned will contribute to a reader’s understanding of your story. The same is true of docudrama.” […]

You sure did a bad thing for the people of Lincoln Square (Lawrence and Lincoln) when you glorified “pigeon man.” He now has laminated copies of his picture in your Reader (October 22). He solicits money “for pigeon feed.” They sit all over his body and head and the sidewalk is full of pigeon poop. […]

Dear editors: I have not seen enough of Judge Leo Holt [“A Law Abiding Judge,” March 5] to form an opinion of him, but I was in his courtroom the day he sentenced William Ligue. Judge Holt’s ruling cited the prosecution’s failure to enter victim Rocky Gamboa’s medical records into evidence. This omission left only […]

Jordan Marsh: You think some “indignities” are too “insignificant” to be noted in the Reader [Letters, February 20, re “Exit Wounds,” February 6]. No doubt. But I question someone’s judgment about which ones they are if it excludes too many of those visited upon citizens by their “public servants.” If you are worried about the […]

Once again the insipid if not megalomaniacal Margasak has made glaring, ridiculous omissions in his “Local Record Roundup” [Post No Bills, December 12]. How is it that the Chicago Reader continually ignores a robust and innovative local rock scene? Does Peter find the musical tastes of real Chicagoans too pedestrian for his highbrow column? Does […]

Dear editor, After reading the November 28 Reader [“He Gave Them the Budget and It Was Done”] I’m left pondering, why aren’t there term limits for mayor in Chicago? The notion of term limits has been running amuck in the free world since the 18th century. And it’s universally considered to be a good idea. […]

[Re “Costes,” October 17]: I already take up to two shits a day. If I stick strange things up my ass, jump off a stage and beat people up, or puke on masturbating chimpanzees would Liz Armstrong write a Critic’s Choice for me too? Anonymous

I’m writing in response to a letter from Ron Friedman of Deerfield in the July 18 issue. Friedman writes, “Contrary to the now documented bad numbers that Kinsey originated, gays and lesbians comprise maybe 3 percent of the U.S. population.” He is, of course, making reference to the much-accepted idea that Kinsey established the 10 […]