Abuelo’s Mexican Grill | $ Brothers Angel and Hugo Gomez have transformed a grungy storefront across from the Damen Pink Line stop into a sparkling sandwich shop wallpapered with Latin American record jackets and National Geographic covers. Sopes, tacos, burritos and tortas are well conceived and delicious, demonstrating fine attention to detail. The chorizo sope […]
Author Archives: Susannah J. Felts
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The Sleeper
John Sheppard’s self-published third novel, a tribute to his murdered sister, gets a second life.
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That’s Not Funny
Comedian Amy Guth turns it on to plug a dark debut about women in trouble.
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Alice in Genderland
As a woman, Alice Sheldon was a frustrated debutante. As James Tiptree Jr., she revolutionized science fiction.
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Wanna See Something Really Weird?
An alligator-claw head-dress, a lizard-skin opium pipe, a two-headed baby–one of the country’s largest collections of freak-show oddities is housed in an unassuming town home in the western suburbs.
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Stories Care Forgot
You have to be seriously into zines to dig this slim volume, subtitled “An Anthology of New Orleans Zines” (Last Gasp). Sprinkled with typos, misspellings, and occasional blocks of chicken scratch, it’s a primo example of warts ‘n’ all self-publishing. But there’s great documentation here of the beautiful and sordid mess that was antediluvian New […]