This week’s talks and tastings.
Tag: Vol. 37 No. 11
Issue of Dec. 6 – 12, 2007
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A victory for the “blighted”
The city backs off from its plan to displace merchants on the 4800 block of North Western.
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Mark Kipnis gets a break
Judge Amy St. Eve sends Conrad Black, Peter Atkinson, and Jack Boultbee to prison but lets Mark Kipnis go home.
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Bomp! A magazine, a store, a label, and now a book
Bomp! the book: an important documentation.
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Tri-continental sounds at the Hideout
Fixtures of the improvised-music scenes in Lebanon and Norway touch down at the Hideout.
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Right to work
The finance committee votes to approve a plan to open trade unions to more minorities, but some aldermen worry it’s toothless.
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Trace your Cretan olive oil to the source
You can trace your bottle of Terra Creta olive oil right back to the source.
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A little TLC
Reporting the Reader’s layoffs, the New York Times’s David Carr offers a good word for John Conroy and investigative journalism. Lee Sandlin adds one for Reader editor Alison True.
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I’m not with Stupid
This election season, everybody seems to be running against Todd Stroger.
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The pitter-patter of pata negra
Jamon iberico, from the acorn-fed pigs of Spain, arrives in Chicago today.
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Make mine music
John C. Reilly plays the Cubby Bear to beat the drum for Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story.