Author Archives: Whet Moser

I always wondered what that’s like.

Megan Cottrell runs the numbers. When people discuss Mayor Daley’s legacies in terms of both architecture and social policy, I can’t help but think that far and away the largest will be the Plan for Transformation, which will take much longer to wrap our heads around than Millennium Park or Meigs Field or Loop TIFs.

My beloved alma mater is the #2 school in the country in… drum roll… “internet brand equity, according to the Global Language Monitor’s 2011 TrendTopper MediaBuzz internet rankings*.” (You can tell they’re on top of the trending buzz in media because of the CamelCase.) This will not seem to leave my social media. Those of […]

Recommended entertainment paired with nearby restaurants.

I fully support Marah Eakin‘s four simple rules of bus etiquette, but it doesn’t go far enough. I would add: 1. Guys: your crotch doesn’t have to be so spread out that your thigh is in my seat. Your balls aren’t that big. 2. Take the window seat. FFS. 3. Wear closed headphones or in-ear […]

Jessica Pupovac discusses her cover story about Illinois’s aging prison population this morning on WBEZ’s 848, which starts shortly.

You might be from Winnetka if….

Ezra Klein does some more analysis of Bill Daley as White House chief of staff. Update: Also, too.