Jennifer Rumberger Archives

The setting is a police station. A young Black woman sits left at a table. She is wearing a plaid shirt and dark trousers. Next to her stands a white woman in all-black clothing. We can see a badge underneath her jacket. A Black woman in a police uniform sits across the table from the younger Black woman. They are all looking toward the right, where a younger white male police officer is standing.

Murder, she wrote

by Kerry Reid October 26, 2022October 26, 2022

Women love true-crime stories—so much so that SNL spoofed the fascination a few years ago with a song about women relaxing alone at home watching their favorite “Murder Show.” Fans of the podcast My Favorite Murder (aka “Murderinos”) are overwhelmingly female. When you’re raised from an early age to think that rape and murder are […]

Arts & Culture

Five Guys Named Moe, The Funny Papers, and eight more new stage shows to see

by Chicago Reader September 20, 2017August 18, 2021

A Louis Jordan tribune and a satire of the 21st-century news biz are among this week’s best bets.