The Chicago Public Library has announced that its selection for this fall’s One Book, One Chicago citywide book club is The Plan of Chicago: Daniel Burnham and the Remaking of the American City, by Northwestern University prof Carl Smith. One Book, One Chicago events take place in September and October, but you can dive into […]
Tag: Vol. 38 No. 44
Issue of Jul. 23 – 29, 2009
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Competition is good
I’ve been working out in the suburbs recently (you didn’t really think it was possible to earn a living as a full-time freelance fashion writer here, did you? Well, I used to, but that’s a story for another time) and realizing that some cliches are true. People in the city do have a better sense […]
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Another recommendation from the road: the Back C.C.’s
It seems like Mannequin Men spent half our tour in NYC, which was sometimes good (seeing friends, taking a break from our fast-food diet to have some incredible meals) and sometimes bad (using up our tour budgets to fund overpriced drinking expeditions). All in all a pretty great time, though. One thing that definitely helped […]
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Bad News Outta Jersey — We’re Number Two
Here in Chicago, we like to view ourselves as the kings and queens of political corruption, like we invented the beast. But even a hometown booster like myself has to give props to the folks in New Jersey and New York. I mean nothing, absolutely nothing, conceived in Chicago—not Hired Truck, Tomczak [PDF], the Duffs, […]
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The next big box war . . . and peace
Wal-Mart and its chief City Council booster, 21st Ward alderman Howard Brookins Jr., are reviving their six-year campaign to open a store on a south-side property that was once home to a Ryerson Steel plant. This time it looks like they’re going to get their store, and they probably won’t need to wage a major […]
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Larry Tee’s OK by me
The post-9/11 electroclash fad did a lot to help Larry Tee‘s career, transforming him from a fairly obscure New York dance-scene fixture best known for cowriting RuPaul’s “Supermodel” into the capo of a movement that dominated the music media for months. At the same time it also nearly ruined his reputation, both because of his […]
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More reasons to love Mark Buehrle
One of the fastest-working starters in the majors; cut twice from high school team; proposed to wife in a deer stand; Cardinals fan.
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Water rec president Terry O’Brien: in the board presidency race
According to WBEZ, Terry O’Brien, president of the Water Reclamation District, will run for Cook County Board president. Mick Dumke praises O’Brien for going Superfund on the water rec’s old reputation as a patronage dump, but wonders if O’Brien should crack down on commissioners who put tens of thousands of miles on perk cars for […]
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One more thing about the TribCo bonuses
“We must continue motivating our people to overcome obstacles, achieve our performance goals and take the company to the next level.” Where I come from, that’s called DOING YOUR JOB.
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Put your kids to work
“And if you don’t have kids, start having as much unprotected sex as possible. Save the money you don’t have on birth control and condoms.” That’s just one of the many helpful tips dispensed in Steve Delahoyde and Schadenfreude’s Surviving the New Depression series, screening in Wits’ End Shorts’ annual Chicago Short Comedy Video & […]
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At least we’re not the only corrupt state out there
My friend Karina is from New Jersey, and like most others I’ve known from that fair state she tends to be prepared for a fight about its relative worth at just about any time.
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Wax Poetics goes to Brazil
The always great Wax Poetics has just published a new issue entirely devoted to the music of Brazil. Among the highlights are in-depth profiles on or interviews with Gilberto Gil, Arthur Verocai, Airto Moreira, Jards Macalé, and Tim Maia. There’s a cool piece with Joel Stones, owner of the New York record shop Tropicalia in […]
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Sample sales, sidewalk sales, and more
This week: Israeli design, sidewalk sale madness in Wicker Park, and big discounts for early birds at Krista K:
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Free advice for the state GOP, worth what it costs
Want a strong Illinois GOP? Don’t wait up.
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This week’s food and drink events
Ride to Pierogifest, a farm dinner, a talk on olive oil and balsamic vinegar, and more.