Author Archives: Ed Margolis

So who do you think would win in a fight between Liz Armstrong [Chicago Antisocial] and Debra Pickett? I know you’re probably going to say Armstrong, but consider the following: Heightwise, I figure they’re about equal, four-foot-nine in stocking feet; but Liz in her four-inch spikes will have it over Deb in her flip-flops. On […]

After a 20-year famine, the Chicago Reader, over the New Year’s weekend, has broken with its own tradition and treated us to a feast of some 16-odd short pieces of original fiction. Without warning or so much as an editorial comment, we have been left on our own to make what we will of this […]

To the editors: Christopher Hill’s “Great Noises of Rock ‘n’ Roll” [July 31] is an insightful treasure; however, I thought everyone by now knew the story about Wilbert Harrison’s pre-guitar break command in the classic, “Kansas City.” Harrison, it is widely acknowledged, was urging on his guitarist, “Muskrat,” who did not disappoint in his delivery. […]