Tag: Vol. 39 No. 50

That Chicago drivers are among the nation’s worst by some measures is completely unsurprising, but the phenomenon I will never understand is why Chicago drivers drive worse, as in like more recklessly, in bad conditions. I cannot prove it scientifically—yet—but I swear to you this is a true fact.

Last fall New Colony scored a well-deserved mini-hit with James Asmus’s domestic drama Calls to Blood, about an achingly perfect young married couple torn apart after their deep, dark secret comes to light. That secret is so improbable and melodramatic the play should collapse as quickly as the protagonists’ relationship, but Asmus holds everything together […]

So that dentist at the corner of Ashland and Blackhawk is Internet famous today for liking Hillary Clinton a lot. I noticed the big Hillary cardboard figure and the possibly related reduction in polar-animal stuff in his window the last time I was in the neighborhood. Now it’s national news! Via @JessicaGalliart.

“Something you hate so much you love it, yet wouldn’t mind leaving it behind.” —Arone Dyer of Buke & Gass.