Category: Letters

Is there really no way to look at a movie venue’s showings for the whole week? Yes indeed there is!

Is there really no way to look at a movie venue’s showings for the whole week? Yes indeed there is!

Burnham’s Intentions Re: “Daniel Burnham: The Man, the Myth, the Misrepresentations,” July 16 Your recent column on the two new pavilions [“Zaha Hadid’s Burnham Centennial Pavilion: A Big Aluminum Hot Potato?” by Deanna Isaacs] makes interesting points, but overlooks a key aspect: in radical design concepts, the architect has both a responsibility and a continued […]

“As an Education professor who has written and edited eight books on public school privatization I found Emily Krone’s article to be a stunning case of mildly disguised right-wing pro-privatization propaganda.”

Any club will have outsiders, or those who don’t fit in to that club. Those outsiders then have the opportunity to refer to or live within that position.

What’s a Sellout? Re: “Selling Out: The Next Level” by Miles Raymer, April 9 The point was always lost on the Chicago Reader, but the dumb-ass mid 90s arguments that pitted “sell-outs” against “the authentic” in the debates over who topped which music charts—as well as the more recent, grown-up version informed by the corporate […]

The Other Internees Re: “The Silent Minority” by Ed M. Koziarski at chicagoreader.com, April 2 Mr Aoki is simply not telling the whole story about the internment of civilians during WW2 when he restricts that to Japanese, when he knows that Germans and Italians were interned with them in internment places like Crystal City, and […]

Team Players We all read with great humility about the Chicago Reader selecting the Chicago Cultural Center as ‘Best Free Shows’ in Chicago [March 26]. Peter Margasak generously complimented our ‘music team’ but left out one very important person, Helen Vasey, who tirelessly coordinates all our classical, opera and vocal music programming. We certainly understand […]

Too Little Too Late “Show Us the Money” by Ben Joravsky and Mick Dumke [March 19] correctly criticizes the city for its failure to monitor compliance with Republic’s $10 million TIF Agreement. However, because the plain language of TIF agreements don’t protect taxpayers (e.g., no penalties for Republic if they breach during the last ten […]

RedEye’s Got It Going On Re: “What’s Black and White and Dead All Over?” by Whet Moser, March 12 Find enough of the right users to financially survive. If RedEye can do that—in print, no less—then it’s a model to seriously consider. Besides, its focus group is distracted people in transit. For those people at […]

Todd Stroger, Lightning Rod Re: The Works, March 5 Stroger is a nice guy and his father was a government lifer. But please let’s get past this white/black thing. Not just the people in my district but many others are distancing themselves from Stroger because he is incompetent and was never qualified to be the […]

“[Paul] Street doubts that a just society is possible under capitalism or without reparations that acknowledge and reverse the ‘windfall bestowed on sections of the white community by “past” racist policies and practices.”‘ —Deanna Isaacs, October 25 Unidentified Photographer The photo of Kid Sister that led off last week’s Arts & Entertainment section was taken […]

How Green Is Your Olympics? Re: The Works, February 26 The Olympics provide a platform that allows the city to showcase itself globally to billions of people (honestly, you can’t put a price on that promotion… ask Barcelona). Not only will this help tourism, it most importantly will help attract regional, domestic and global businesses […]