Huffington Post’s Jonah Peretti thinks I should be grateful that they would deign to jack our content.
Tag: Vol. 38 No. 13
Issue of Dec. 18 – 24, 2008
First and third Sundays: Dog training seminars
Ongoing: Free dog-training seminars at Chicago Animal Care & Control.
12/20 — Disney holiday concert
Saturday: Free Disney holiday concert at the Chicago Cultural Center
Lists that keep on giving, part 1
An early holiday helping of a critic’s favorite films.
Twenty-four days of free music from Thrill Jockey
Thrill Jockey’s advent calendar delivers MP3s as presents.
12/20 — Free Filligar Show at the Apple Store
Saturday: Filligar plays a free set at the Michigan Avenue Apple Store.
Eric Spitznagel’s Holy Land Experience
Former Reader writer Eric Spitznagel on the Holy Land Experience theme park in Orlando, FL.
The Chi-Town Daily News gets $150,000 in new grants.
The online Chi-Town Daily News gets $150,000 more in grants to add four reporters
Grand Theft HuffPo pt. 4
Other HuffPo victims, how their SEO strategy works, and a warning for San Francisco media outlets.
Saturday: Screening of Helvetica
Saturday 12/20–afternoon screening of Helvetica at the Chicago Cultural Center
Blago in the buff
Old Town Ale House’s Bruce Elliott, subject of a 2006 Reader cover, has painted Blagojevich in the buff.
Grand Theft Huffpo pt. 3
Gawker chimes in/piles on re Huffpo’s borderline “aggregation” practices.