Jordan Wimby was the only Black kid on her Beverly block, and she ate like everyone else: Lunchables, Tyson chicken nuggets, TV dinners, and frozen potpies. “Growing up I was surrounded by this conversation of racism, oppression, colonialism,” says Wimby, whose mother and grandparents were teachers (most of them CPS) who specialized in American and […]
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Continental Sales Lots-4-Less is a real treasure island
John Sanchez reckons he downs 12 cases of bubbly a month. “I don’t drink pop, or juice, or anything diet, so I usually come here for the bubbly,” he shouted. “It’s cheaper.” We were struggling to hear each other in a sun-beaten Clearing parking lot on a recent morning while he loaded two-liter bottles of […]
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The Reader’s stay-at-home chronicles: days 50 and 51
What we’re reading, watching, listening to, etc., to pass the time.
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Pete Holmes on navigating pop culture post-Weinstein
“I’m interested in the conversation about if we’re allowed to laugh at people who’ve made mistakes,” the creator and star of HBO’s Crashing says.
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Cubs manager Joe Maddon isn’t in the clubhouse ‘to make rules’ and other Chicago news
Also, a finalist for Chicago Police Department chief is critical of Rahm’s handling of Laquan McDonald case.
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Gossip Wolf: Population joins the HoZac nation
Population joins the HoZac nation, Arbogast does a metal cooking show, and Geronimo’s fifth birthday
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The “butt cancer” billboard and other food news bites
The “butt cancer” billboard, the skinny on cookbook ghostwriting, and other food news of the week.