What we’re reading, watching, listening to, etc., to pass the time.
Tag: New Yorker
Posted inArts & Culture
The Three Escapes of Hannah Arendt tells the story of the philosopher’s life and thoughts in pictures
Or how gag cartoonist Ken Krimstein took the plunge into midcentury philosophy.
Posted inMusic
What Chicago media gets wrong about Chance, Keef, and the local hip-hop scene
Critics who fall back on shallow tropes and ignorant cliches deny us an enriching understanding of the musical cultures in our own backyard.
Posted inNews & Politics
Chicago’s Second City inferiority complex has mutated into a nasty superiority complex
Due to the city’s also-ran self-image, no perceived slight can go unanswered.
Posted inArts & Culture
The lines of Saul Steinberg’s mind
A new exhibit at the Art Institute exemplifies the genius of the 20th-century artist.
Posted inBlogs
The dividing line between the U.S. and Canada
An addendum to Adam Gopnik’s argument that “we could have been Canada.”
Posted inArts & Culture
The Chicago education of George Saunders
The celebrated short-story writer and recent debut novelist discusses his formative years in and around the city of his birth.
Posted inBlogs
If Mitt Romney wants to run the State Department, I’m down with that
Let’s not shame Mitt Romney out of the State Department.
Posted inFood & Drink
Catching a buzz without the booze at Chicago’s first kava bar
Wicker Park’s Tropikava Kafe serves up an alcohol alternative that promises relaxing, even euphoric effects.
Posted inBlogs
Democratic primary shows a gulf remains between Chicago’s black and Latino voters
Hillary Clinton won Chicago’s black wards; Bernie Sanders dominated in the city’s Latino wards.
Posted inBlogs
Mayor Rahm takes off his sweater, drops an F-bomb in the New Yorker’s Father Pfleger profile
“All the assumptions you have about me are fucking wrong,” Emanuel tells the New Yorker‘s Evan Osnos.
Posted inBlogs
Emanuel discovers the need for police accountability reforms
Four and a half years after he assumed office—but only one week after the release of the Laquan McDonald video—the mayor determines that the city’s police review authority needs to be examined.
Posted inArts & Culture
Childfree people are not that selfish, shallow, and self-absorbed
An interview with author Meghan Daum about writers’ decisions not to have kids
Posted inArts & Culture
A New Yorker writer looks back on his quest for the perfect wave
In Barbarian Days, William Finnegan reflects on a lifetime of surfing.
Posted inBlogs
In Saint Mazie, Jami Attenberg fleshes out Joseph Mitchell’s downtown dame with a heart of gold
Jami Attenberg probes the source of her heart of gold in her new novel.