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Home » Vol. 35 No. 48

Tag: Vol. 35 No. 48

Issue of Aug. 24 – 30, 2006

Posted inBlogs

Trawling the Net

by Peter Margasak August 30, 2006August 19, 2021

Worthwhile stops on the Internet

Posted inBlogs

Measuring poverty with a broken yardstick

by Harold Henderson August 30, 2006August 19, 2021

Poor people have more spacious homes, more cars, and healthier kids than 30 years ago. Why is the “poverty rate” higher?

Posted inBlogs

Five surprises

by Harold Henderson August 30, 2006August 19, 2021

Fantasy, porn, babies, toddlers — not in that order.

Posted inBlogs

Recovery mission

by Peter Margasak August 29, 2006August 19, 2021

Drag City Records uncovers music by Bill Fay and Mark Fosson.

Posted inBlogs

Good advice I’ve never gotten

by Harold Henderson August 29, 2006August 19, 2021

What you should have learned in college or from your folks; 46 varieties of male privilege; why it’s so hard for magazines (and blogs) to keep it real; and the imperishable value of mediocrity.

Posted inBlogs

“Pissing while”

by Harold Henderson August 29, 2006August 19, 2021

Keeping time without clocks.

Posted inBlogs

Tortoise boxed, the Reader in “Best Music Writing,” the Like Young retires

by Peter Margasak August 28, 2006August 19, 2021

Tortoise releases a box set of remixes and rarities, Monica Kendrick is featured in “Da Capo Best Music Writing 2006,” and the Like Young call it quits.

Posted inBlogs

“I’m really sorry, but I’m going to give a lecture today . . .”

by Harold Henderson August 28, 2006August 19, 2021

James Redfield’s back-to-school comments: “Students do complain a lot when we don’t tell them what it is that we know.”

Posted inBlogs

Monday Morning Mania

by Harold Henderson August 28, 2006August 19, 2021

Carson’s end, the one thing teachers want most, why Judy shouldn’t like conservatives, and why Chicago shouldn’t follow northwest Indiana’s lead.

Posted inBlogs

World’s best whiskey bar

by Harold Henderson August 27, 2006August 19, 2021

The last word on the Cheney administration’s foreign policy: “Manichaeism is not a plan.”

Posted inBlogs

Linkin’ & thinkin’

by Harold Henderson August 26, 2006August 19, 2021

Eighteenth-century titans play chess; a mesh shirt conceals all; the big-box ordinance defeats itself; so do NutraSweet and computers; and the Reformation ends, provoking an unseemly question.

Posted inBlogs

New Territory

by Peter Margasak August 25, 2006August 19, 2021

Territory Band debuts new music with special guest Fred Anderson

Posted inBlogs

Ian Svenonius: mad genius

by Miles Raymer August 25, 2006August 19, 2021

Ian Svenonius reading info

Posted inBlogs

Atheist conservative vs. religious conservative smackdown!

by Harold Henderson August 25, 2006August 19, 2021

Conservatism without gods–what would Louis XIV say?

Posted inBlogs

The Chicago freedom movement at 40

by Harold Henderson August 25, 2006August 19, 2021

A civil-rights anniversary with little to cheer about.

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