When Anne Ford interviewed Adam Selzer for the Reader in 2014, it was all about his job as a ghost tour leader. You didn’t have to read between the lines to sense that it wasn’t the perfect gig for a truth-seeking research glutton. “No matter how skeptical I tried to be, I felt like I […]
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A survivor’s tour of Auschwitz
She didn’t want to talk about it. Fritzie Fritzshall survived Auschwitz, came to Chicago, and built what most of us are lucky enough to think of as a normal life, with work and marriage, a child and a home. She did it by putting her Auschwitz experience in a mental box and shutting it away. […]
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Amazon won’t save the Thompson Center, but Nathan Eddy might
The Berlin-based documentary filmmaker hopes to rescue a building in danger of destruction.
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Long reads from the Reader archive for your long Thanksgiving weekend
Sink your teeth into these favorite Reader features.
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The Chicago Architecture Biennial opens this weekend
The inaugural Chicago Architecture Biennial opens Saturday; here’s a glimpse of what you’ll see.
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The five more stars at this year’s Fifth Star Awards include Sandra Cisneros, Steppenwolf, and old lion Stanley Tigerman
Produced by the city Department of Cultural Affairs and Special Events, this free program celebrating the city’s creativity is Chicago’s version of the Kennedy Center Awards. Like last year’s rousing inaugural event, it will honor five stalwarts of the local arts scene, selected by DCASE and members of the mayor’s Cultural Advisory Council. The 2015 […]
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The micro and macro of ‘Architecture to Scale’
The Art Institute’s “Architecture to Scale” shows works by Chicago bad-boy architect Stanley Tigerman and LA firm Zago Architecture.
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A lifetime achievement award for Stanley Tigerman
The architect will receive AIA Chicago’s Lifetime Achievement Award.
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Reader’s Agenda Mon 5/20: Dinosaur improv, Charlie XCX, and architecture
What’s on the Reader‘s Agenda for Monday, May 20
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Zoom in: the Loop
This week we zoom in on the gaudy self-park at 60 E. Lake, which is designed to resemble a Rolls-Royce.
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Tigerman, extracted
Stanley Tigerman takes on the influence of Mies van der Rohe in a new collection of architectural essays, Schlepping Through Ambivalence.
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Starting today on the Bleader: Architecture Week
Today we start round two of our weekly online-only feature “Variations on a Theme.”
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Tigerman on the loose
Stanley Tigerman, Chicago architecture’s chief bad boy, takes on his own contentious career
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The Farewells to Bruce Graham
The Wall Street Journal’s obit of Bruce Graham reads a lot like the one the Chicago Tribune had already published.