Kickstarter campaign to fund Michael Caplan’s documentary Algren
Tag: Vol. 40 No. 37
Issue of Jun. 2 – 8, 2011
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While the Big Breeze refreshes, Vizquel triples Sox fans’ pleasure
The triple—there just ain’t nothin’ like it. So says Luke Gofannon, star of the hapless Rupert Mundys, the baseball team invented by Philip Roth in his hilarious 1973 The Great American Novel. When Gofannon’s lover asks him to name his greatest love, to her dismay it isn’t her—nor is it the other rival she suspects. […]
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Chicago’s troubled beaches
Whet Moser notes that Chicago’s beaches have long been troubled
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Sat 6/11 – Free Workout at Millenium Park
Free workout at Millennium Park every Saturday from 6/4-9/10
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New reports of mob attacks include CTA bus encounter
More reports of coordinated mob attacks. Late Saturday night, a group of teens stormed a CTA bus near the University of Illinois at Chicago campus, attacking and robbing a man. Last night, 15 to 20 young men attacked and robbed two men near the intersection of Chicago and Wabash. Police detained three suspects, but are […]
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Plus Size vs. Skinny: Vogue Is Tired of Hearing About It
Vogue Italia stirs up an old debate.
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Post-Protess era begins at the Medill Innocence Project
The Medill Innocence Project publishes findings in the murder case of prisoner Donald Watkins
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CUFF announces prize winners
The judges of the Chicago Underground Film Festival have spoken.
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Chicago is baking, but the Big Breeze will help tonight
The coolest place in Chicago this steamy evening should be U.S. Cellular Field, where the Big Breeze, White Sox designated misser Adam Dunn, faces the reigning American League Cy Young champ, Mariners ace Felix Hernandez. Both players lead the AL in strikeouts: Hernandez has fanned 92 and Dunn has been fanned 80 times. Hernandez brings […]
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It’s so hot right now
It seems Mother Nature is making up for lost time. Chicago will see its hottest weather in five years over the next few days. Says Tom Skilling, “The 95-degree high forecast at O’Hare International Airport today and Wednesday is 18 degrees above the normals for June 7 and 8, and far higher than the 70- […]
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Police chief McCarthy expresses dislike for gun control “abolitionists”
Jody Weis wasn’t the only ex-city official that new police chief Garry McCarthy attempted to distance himself from on Monday. He also signaled a distaste for the gun control policies of former Mayor Richard M. Daley. “My goal is to bring the gun debate back to the center,” McCarthy told aldermen. “I think that we […]
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June 15 — Look for the newly “enhanced” Tribune
Enhanced Chicago Tribune coming June 15
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New police chief sets out to show he’s not the old police chief
Garry McCarthy and the aldermen who signed off on his appointment as Chicago police superintendent Monday were eager to send a message to the public: He is not Jody Weis. As 33rd Ward alderman Richard Mell put it: “The difference between you and your predecessor is like night and day.” The aldermen should know. Several […]
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The 2011 Gathering of the Juggalos infomercial (this one’s 27 minutes long)
The Gathering of the Juggalos releases yet another unbearably long and absurd infomercial.