“I‘m still 35, as far as I’m concerned,” Barb Jonesi says.
Tag: Chicagoans
Posted inBlogs
The highs and lows of a marijuana ‘trimmigrant’: ‘We’d roll blunts and roll joints and hit the bong and work all day’
A marijuana trimmer discusses the tedious but profitable work of manicuring freshly harvested pot.
Posted inBlogs
Chicago comedian Peter Alexander Bresnan documents his stand-up struggles in the podcast Tell Me I’m Funny
“When you start out in comedy,” Bresnan says, “there’s so much failure.”
Posted inBlogs
‘There’s no one sadder than someone who’s sat on their own violin,’ says a Chicago luthier
Ryan McLaughlin makes and repairs stringed instruments.
Posted inBlogs
Brothers in life and vending machines
Seeing a therapist together helps Mark and Daniel Stein better run the family business they inherited.
Posted inBlogs
Navigating disorders of sex development with a Chicago doctor
Pediatric urologist Elizabeth Yerkes helps guide new parents through the mysteries of gender identity.
Posted inBlogs
This ‘Beatles PhD’ schooled kids who believed John, Paul, George, and Ringo were from Florida
Jack Murphy’s students “couldn’t believe we were going to spend a whole year on this one band that they’d either never heard of or only knew from a Target commercial.”
Posted inBlogs
A physics teacher in Iraq, stereotyped ‘al-Qaeda’ as a refugee in Chicago
Since coming to the U.S. from Iraq, Othman Al Ani has been asked, “Are you related to Osama bin Laden?”
Posted inBlogs
‘The dog ate my homework’ and other dumb excuses a Chicago tutor has heard
“I get lied to on a daily basis,” says Kristi Harreld.
Posted inBlogs
A wheelchair can be a ‘super-desexualizing vehicle’
“It feels like you’re not even entertained as a dating option when you’re in one, unless you’re redonkulously hot or the guy is a fetishist,” says Linda Cassady.
Posted inBlogs
After the premature birth of their son, a Chicago couple wonders, ‘How are we gonna get through this?’
New parents Annie Gromberg and Jason Rothstein on the saga of the birth of their son Jascha
Posted inMusic
The Mob pioneered Chicago’s ‘horn rock’ sound—and wore dark pinstriped suits with carnations
This big, ambitious band scored a couple Billboard hits and wrote several more for other artists, but their discography ends in 1977.
Posted inBlogs
A Chicago teen shares the anxieties of a life on the verge
Incoming high school freshman Shavon Collins doesn’t want to grow up just yet.
Posted inBlogs
A veteran elementary school custodian considers himself a ‘lucky man’
After 30 years, Michelet Boursiquot knows what it takes to care for a school and its students.
Posted inBlogs
Are whites in East Garfield Park ‘pioneers’?
This week’s Chicagoan is Chris Krypel, East Garfield Park neighbor.