By coincidence or luck, I published the very first interview with the south-side saxophonist
Tag: Reader at Forty Issue
Posted inNews & Politics
Robert McCamant, co-owner, 1971-2007, on the Reader’s early days
‘Magazine-style design on newsprint was a signal that we were something new—neither fish nor fowl’
Posted inNews & Politics
Bob Roth, co-owner, 1971-2007, on the Reader’s early days
‘All but one of our investors were unemployed friends from college’
Posted inNews & Politics
Mary Jo Madden, general manager, 1977-now, on the Reader’s early days
‘If it sounds like I had the worst job one could get at the Reader, you weren’t around in 1977’
Posted inNews & Politics
Tom Rehwaldt, co-owner, 1971-2007, on the Reader’s early days
‘He scoffed and assured me that my paper was nothing like the Village Voice. He was right.’
Posted inNews & Politics
Tom Yoder, co-owner, 1973-2007, on the Reader’s early days
‘The office was the dining room of the apartment where most of us lived’
Posted inColumns & Opinion
You can revisit the past, but you can’t go home again
Reflecting on the Reader‘s 40-year history . . . and my own
Posted inMusic
What’s the newspaper equivalent of crate digging?
Rummaging the archive of Reader music criticism
Posted inNews & Politics
‘The conscience of Chicago journalism’
Michael Miner, the Reader‘s rock, has been in these pages since day one
Posted inNews & Politics
Nancy Banks, managing editor and writer, 1971-1977, on the Reader’s early days
‘Rodney Wanker didn’t exist. I’d been replaced by a rude-sounding pseudonym.’
Posted inNews & Politics
Mark Homstad, theater critic in the 70s, on the Reader’s early days
‘I didn’t intend to create a publicity-seeking controversy, though it may have helped provide an initial marker of the paper’s critical independence’
Posted inNews & Politics
Dave Jones, ‘production czar,’ 1976-2006, on the Reader’s early days
‘It was easy to feel at home. So I stayed for 30 years.’
Posted inMusic
America’s real artists are hiding out at Betty Lou’s
The 1973 article that ‘discovered’ jazz master Von Freeman