Armed with gum tack and verse, Sid Yiddish is turning public bathrooms into alternative spaces for reflection.
Author Archives: Jeffrey Felshman
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Hell in a Cell
Tamms supermax prison was built to punish disruptive inmates with temporary solitary confinement. Yet Reginald Berry spent the better part of eight years there—and he was luckier than many.
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Books/No Wiseguys Just Guys
Ex-journalist Donald Evans turns his stint as a gambler and bookie into a debut novel.
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Correction
Contrary to the impression that may have been left by my story on Philip McDowell (“Occupational Hazard,” December 8), though Richard Kling was representing Philip McDowell at a judge’s behest and at the county’s expense, he remained a private attorney and did not become McDowell’s public defender. Jeffrey Felshman
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The System: Occupational Hazard
A public defender tries to dump a job where he’d have to call a sitting judge a liar.
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Lifestyles/Earn Local, Ride Global
George Christensen spends the winter as a bike messenger and the rest of the year touring the world on two wheels.
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Setting the Bar for Smut
Every Saturday night Steve “Pudgy” De Rose turns the Twisted Spoke into a porno house.
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Up Everest, Quietly
Sophia Danenberg was the first black woman to sit on top of the world and nobody noticed.
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Everybody Loves a Parade
Andy Thayer finally figured out how to get an antiwar protest routed down Michigan Avenue.
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Life After Exoneration
South-sider James Newsome and other casualties of the justice system speak up in a new oral history from McSweeney’s.
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The Devil Made Him Do It
After touring from Java to Spain, septuagenarian flamenco dancer Edo Sie found stomping grounds in Chicago.
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Driving Miss Mary
Keeping up a little-known Catholic tradition is getting harder.
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Does Rehabilitation Work?
For his latest PBS documentary, Tod Lending spent three years following two ex-cons as they struggled to stay straight.