The Chicago Reader is pleased to announce some new hires in our editorial and marketing departments. Kerry Cardoza (she/her) is the Reader’s newest culture editor, and her focus will be on art, architecture, books, literary arts, and other related cultural topics. She is a Chicago-based journalist who often writes about art, culture, labor, and power. […]
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Posted inStaff notes
The road ahead
“Good things come to those who wait,” the adage goes. Back in the summer of 2009, I found myself in Chicago as an alternative journalism fellow at Medill, and I quickly fell in love with the city, its people, culture, and greasy spoons (if I close my eyes and concentrate hard enough, I can still […]
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Enrique Limón named Editor in Chief of Chicago Reader
Longtime journalist and editor Enrique Limón has been named editor in chief of the Chicago Reader, the city’s 51-year-old alternative newspaper, after a national search. Limón will start October 3. “For half a century, the Reader has punched above its weight and has set a standard across the alt industry and beyond,” Limón said. “It’s […]
Posted inArts & Culture
Dating this Reader music editor won’t be an error
One of our readers’ awesome single friends is ready for his close-up.
Posted inMusic
In Rotation: Cousin Dud’s Dan Schuld on Nina Simone covering Leonard Cohen
Current musical obsessions of Cousin Dud bandmates Dan Schuld and Matt Carmichael
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On Robert Caro, LBJ, Clinton, editors, and deadlines
I have a personal reason for appreciating Robert Caro
Posted inNews & Politics
Pickett’s Charge/The View From Across the Street/In Loving Memory of a Real SOB
Pickett’s Charge Debra Pickett trembles on the cusp of stardom. She knows it; her readers know it, colleagues at the Sun-Times know it–though none have called to complain she’s a callow princess unfit to mop the floors at midnight (which is the sort of thing I heard years ago when Richard Roeper trembled on the […]