What’s Madigan’s man doing in Pilsen? Plus an update on independent Cuahutemoc Morfin’s fight to force a runoff against Danny Solis.
Tag: Vol. 36 No. 23
Issue of Mar. 1 – 7, 2007
A Good Editor
Kitry Krause, a good editor, leaves the Reader for the Atlantic Monthly.
Late, great planet earth …
Katsuhito Ishii’s The Taste of Tea finds a valedictory angle on our ecological discontents.
Blast (and I mean blast!!!) from the past
Okka Disk uncovers a valuable slice of Chicago’s free-jazz past.
Sports stats done wrong
What happens when you apply business standards to sports achievement?
On it goes in the 25th Ward
The board of election commissioners releases the numbers in the 25th ward.
Another Black Issue
Frank magazine publishes Conrad Black issue and cops to parodic Web site.
A new Persian chef is coming to town
Noon-O-Kabab is getting a new kitchen and a new chef from France.
My First Book of Skepticism
Books for skeptical parents who want to raise skeptical children.
Walk in on your feet, leave on your back
After last night at the Congress, green beer and canned Irish fests can pogue mahone.
Inside golf
Why can’t other sports use modern statistical analysis the way golf does?
Denby on Kiarostami and Resnais
New Yorker film critic David Denby knocked Taste of Cherry in 1998, recommends it in 2007, and continues to slight Alain Resnais.