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Posted inNews & Politics

Nancy Banks, managing editor and writer, 1971-1977, on the Reader’s early days

by Nancy Banks October 13, 2011August 19, 2021

‘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 I’d been replaced by a rude-sounding pseudonym.’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

by Mark Homstad October 13, 2011August 19, 2021

‘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

by Dave Jones October 13, 2011August 19, 2021

‘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

by Neil Tesser October 13, 2011August 19, 2021

The 1973 article that ‘discovered’ jazz master Von Freeman

Von Freeman at the Green Mill, October 2011
Posted inMusic

Remembering my 1973 introduction to Von Freeman

by Neil Tesser October 13, 2011September 15, 2021

By coincidence or luck, I published the very first interview with the south-side saxophonist

Posted inNews & Politics

Robert McCamant, co-owner, 1971-2007, on the Reader’s early days

by Robert McCamant October 13, 2011August 19, 2021

‘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

by Bob Roth October 13, 2011August 19, 2021

‘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

by Mary Jo Madden October 13, 2011August 19, 2021

‘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

by Thomas Rehwaldt October 13, 2011August 19, 2021

‘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

by Tom Yoder October 13, 2011August 19, 2021

‘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

by Michael Miner October 13, 2011August 19, 2021

Reflecting on the Reader‘s 40-year history . . . and my own

Posted inMusic

What’s the newspaper equivalent of crate digging?

by Miles Raymer October 13, 2011August 19, 2021

Rummaging the archive of Reader music criticism

Michael Miner
Posted inNews & Politics

‘The conscience of Chicago journalism’

by Steve Bogira October 13, 2011August 19, 2021

Michael Miner, the Reader‘s rock, has been in these pages since day one

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