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Home » Vol. 37 No. 18

Tag: Vol. 37 No. 18

Issue of Jan. 24 – 30, 2008

Posted inBlogs

Coming or going?

by Kate Schmidt January 30, 2008August 19, 2021

1,000 Words: Election Edition

Posted inBlogs

If he wants to take a bird home with him tonight, it’s none of your business

by Whet Moser January 30, 2008August 19, 2021

“I did not have sexual relations with that parrot.”

Posted inBlogs

It’s a gusher!

by Pat Graham January 30, 2008August 19, 2021

What’s the point of There Will Be Blood? Stanley Kubrick ought to know.

Posted inBlogs

Are you gonna take the RPM Challenge?

by Miles Raymer January 30, 2008August 19, 2021

Seeking Chicago people who are making an album next month

Posted inBlogs

You Shoot: The body, the blood, the machine

by Whet Moser January 30, 2008August 19, 2021

You Shoot: The body, the blood, the machine

Posted inBlogs

Wandering with Golden Rule Jones

by Whet Moser January 30, 2008August 19, 2021

Local lit blogger Golden Rule Jones blogs about a marvelous Swiss writer.

Posted inBlogs

Requiem for Bobby Fischer

by Ted Cox January 30, 2008August 19, 2021

Reflections on the death of Bobby Fischer, another chess genius driven to a tragic death.

Posted inBlogs

After I get sick I just get sad

by Whet Moser January 30, 2008August 19, 2021

A moving piece about Seeley Avenue in Ford Heights, abandoned to foreclosures.

Posted inBlogs

You Shoot: Light scratches the surface

by Whet Moser January 30, 2008August 19, 2021

You Shoot: Light scratches the surface

Posted inBlogs

Amped for Erykah

by Miles Raymer January 30, 2008August 19, 2021

I am so amped for “New Amerykah”

Posted inBlogs

So that’s who came up with the idea for RedEye

by Whet Moser January 30, 2008August 19, 2021

Rod Blagojevich, media critic.

Posted inBlogs

Commonplace links

by Whet Moser January 30, 2008August 19, 2021

Commonplace links: “Cali Rivera makes cowbells, timbales and other percussion instruments in his small shop in the Bronx. Forty-five years ago he started out with a dream to make the perfect cowbell.”

Posted inBlogs

You Shoot: blizzard

by Whet Moser January 29, 2008August 19, 2021

You Shoot: blizzard

Posted inBlogs

It is very unpleasant outside right now

by Whet Moser January 29, 2008August 19, 2021

So the world will know how crappy the weather was tonight.

Posted inBlogs

That’s the spirit

by Mick Dumke January 29, 2008August 19, 2021

Most candidates sound optimistic about their chances of winning. Not would-be state rep Phillip Jackson.

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