Loyola e-mail: “The Chicago Department of Public Health has informed the University that a Loyola student has a probable, but unconfirmed, case of swine flu, and that it appears to be isolated at this time.”
Author Archives: Kiki Yablon
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Jerry Weller, the gift that keeps on giving
The former congressman was a friend to fishing tackle-box makers.
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Best of Chicago 2009: Best Place to Take a Toddler
The Reader’s Choice: Curio Cafe
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Free cheap suit (if you get fired)
Via Freakonomics: buy a cheap suit now at Jos. A. Bank and if you get fired in the next few months you get your money back–and keep the suit.
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Creatures of the Wind in W
Chicago-based fashion designers Shane Gabier and Christopher Peters, aka Creatures of the Wind, in W magazine.
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Chicago through the lens of Harper’s Index
Chicago through the lens of Harper’s Index.
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2/14 — Free downloads from Carrot Top Records
2/14 — Free downloads from Carrot Top artists the Handsome Family, Speck Mountain, and the Bitter Tears.
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How to honor Lux Interior
Contrary to initial reports, Lux Interior’s passing was “unexpected” and “totally devestating”; what to send instead of flowers.
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Still growing old in Gitmo
The subject of a 2007 Reader cover story is among the prisoners at Guantanamo today, though he was ordered released in 2005. His case will be reviewed in light of Barack Obama’s order to close the detention center within a year.
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When editors are replaced by robots . . .
This is what happens when editors are replaced by robots.