Liz Armstrong, the Chicago Reader’s former Chicago Antisocial columnist, now writes for Vice magazine.
Tag: Vol. 38 No. 16
Issue of Jan. 8 – 14, 2009
The future of news — not so free, at last.
David Carr and Jack Shafer imagine news going the way of music and iTunes — you’ll have to buy it.
One bite: Trader Vic’s peanut butter sauce
Trader Vic’s peanut butter sauce will see you in hell.
From the mayor to your feet
Proof the city is definitely serious about stepping up snow removal.
Floating Like A Butterfly
Arne Duncan shows once again that he’s the master of the duck and dodge.
Lasko’s letting go letter
Redmoon Theater artistic director Jim Lasko writes about stepping down.
More guns than roses
To: Sam Zell CC: America–The future of journalism is its yellow, bloody past.
Priorities
The City Council spent more time Tuesday praising Roland Burris than discussing plans to use taxpayer money on the 2016 Olympics. By a long shot.
Get busy, these papers aren’t going to sell themselves
Those 2008 stories Chicago gave us were great, but we the press are still screwed. What can you do for us in ’09?
The many sides of Maja Ratkje
Norway’s Maja Ratkje shows two very different musical personalities on a pair of recent albums.
Just one more week!
A young Obama drops Peter Tosh into a 1983 college-newspaper piece about campus antiwar groups.
Community benefits
Backed by activists, five aldermen propose a plan to ensure Chicago’s Olympics bid yields “community benefits.”