Reader staffers share stories that fascinate, alarm, amuse, or inspire us.
Hey, did you read:
• That Chance the Rapper hopes to raise $100,000 to make 1,000 coats for homeless Chicagoans? —Leor Galil
• Or see today’s excellent Beethoven-themed Google doodle? —Aimee Levitt
• About the Uber driver who attacked a couple with a snow brush? —Brianna Wellen
• That Putin’s partial to Trump? —Tony Adler
• That fewer people were sentenced to death in 2015 than any other year since the 70s? —Tal Rosenberg
• The great Rebecca Solnit on art and empathy, or mansplanations of Lolita? —Aimee Levitt
• An interview with architect Zaha Hadid, in which she calls the Chicago Architecture Biennial “cute?” —Tal Rosenberg
• That Martin Shkreli got arrested on fraud charges? —Luca Cimarusti