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Changing Directions
Thanks to a tremendous staff, support from our owners and donors, and generous readers and foundations, we were able to make it to our 50th anniversary this year. But the future for all media is still tenuous. Our pivots have worked, but we need to continue to be nimble, and responsive to changes.
Posted inOn Politics
Pushing back
It took a while, but at last something reassuring emerged in the aftermath of the acquittal of Kyle Rittenhouse for murder by a mostly white jury in Kenosha, Wisconsin. That would be Dahleen Glanton’s insightful column in Sunday’s Sun-Times—one of the few sympathetic appraisals in the mainstream press of Joseph Rosenbaum, Anthony Huber, and Gaige […]
Posted inOpinion
Vaxxing our kids
Leonard C. Goodman is a Chicago criminal defense attorney and co-owner of the for-profit arm of the Reader. As a father of a young child, I am pressured to get my daughter vaccinated for COVID-19. And like many Americans, I have concerns about giving my six-year-old a new vaccine that was not tested on humans […]
Posted inOn Culture
‘Misinformation in listicle format’
I was spending a day in bed with a laptop when I got an e-mail from a reader linking to an article titled “20 Essential Studies that Raise Grave Doubts about COVID-19 Vaccine Mandates.” It got my attention. After a Moderna booster the day before and a restless night, I’d awakened that morning woozy and […]
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Be the nonbinary lesbian you want to be
On self-identifying, ghosting, and straight men lusting after gay men
Posted inOn Politics
Buried secrets
For proof that the people who run this city are determined to never change their ways, I bring you the latest unsavory details regarding the harassment of female lifeguards at Oak Street Beach. They’re contained in the recently released Hays Report, so named for Valarie Hays, the corporate lawyer who wrote it. The Park District […]
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Four reasons why the problem is you
Would you rather listen to a charming guy talk about his cat or a conceited guy drone on about peeing next to a celebrity?
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Growing for Good with Green Thumb: My Block My Hood My City
Lighting up the south side this holiday season
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A note on this week’s cover
I left the workshop inspired, not just by the conservators’ exhaustive attention to detail but also by the musical machines in their care.
Posted inOn Culture
‘Undying Love’: the Opera
Composer and tenor Steve Wallace says the first time he heard the Nas song “Undying Love,” the final track on the rapper’s 1999 album I Am . . ., “I immediately saw it as a verismo one-act with chamber orchestra, but I stored it away for a later time.” It wasn’t until 2014, when Wallace […]
Posted inOn Politics
The lying game
Just about the only good thing to come out of the Aaron Rodgers fiasco is that it gives us a textbook example of how MAGA finagles its way out of a jam. Almost as though the Green Bay Packers quarterback’s behavior was orchestrated by Donald Trump himself. First—they lie. Then—deny. Then prevaricate. Then obfuscate. Or […]
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Typically the sub wears the diapers
On hiding bisexuality, trimming pubic hair, and more
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Rays of sunshine
Amid the doom and gloom of MAGA’s resurgence in the race for governor in Virginia, a little good news from Illinois . . . The Democrats stuck it to those dastardly Republicans in the congressional remapping. Though you wouldn’t know that to hear centrist Dems wracked with guilt over the possible demise of Congressman Adam […]