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My visit to the National Funeral Directors convention was lively: Rather be water or ashes? Turned into mulch or left to rot? Released over the ocean by a jet? Buried in a mushroom casket? Turned into a rock?
www.chicagotribune.com/2025/11/04/f...
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From cradle to grave: There was something for everyone alive and otherwise at the Chicago funeral directors convention
You can learn a lot about your options for the afterlife at the annual trade show, which recently ended at McCormick Place. It was not a solemn gathering.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/11/04/funeral-directors-trade-show/
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My visit to the National Funeral Directors convention was lively: Rather be water or ashes? Turned into mulch or left to rot? Released over the ocean by a jet? Buried in a mushroom casket? Turned into a rock?
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From cradle to grave: There was something for everyone alive and otherwise at the Chicago funeral directors convention
You can learn a lot about your options for the afterlife at the annual trade show, which recently ended at McCormick Place. It was not a solemn gathering.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/11/04/funeral-directors-trade-show/
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I wrote a bit about the Illinois tradition of insane high school mascot names everyone takes for granted - and the legislation that could change a few
www.chicagotribune.com/2025/11/07/i...
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Column: Why changing problematic high school nicknames is back in the spotlight — and a lesson in history
As playoff football games unfold across the state, two prospective bills are resurfacing in Springfield that insist the village of Freeburg, and many other Illinois schools, rethink their problemat…
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/11/07/illinois-high-school-nicknames-mascots/
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I wrote a bit about the Illinois tradition of insane high school mascot names everyone takes for granted - and the legislation that could change a few
www.chicagotribune.com/2025/11/07/i...
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Column: Why changing problematic high school nicknames is back in the spotlight — and a lesson in history
As playoff football games unfold across the state, two prospective bills are resurfacing in Springfield that insist the village of Freeburg, and many other Illinois schools, rethink their problemat…
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/11/07/illinois-high-school-nicknames-mascots/
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I wrote about a timeless Halloween question: How old is too old to trick or treat? That question, and its history, has shaped the holiday in more ways than you know.
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How old is too old to trick or treat? The answer is more complicated than it sounds.
For the record, there is no statewide age restriction on trick or treating in Illinois. But many small communities around the country set formal and informal age limits.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/10/31/too-old-trick-or-treat/
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I wrote about a timeless Halloween question: How old is too old to trick or treat? That question, and its history, has shaped the holiday in more ways than you know.
www.chicagotribune.com/2025/10/31/t...
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How old is too old to trick or treat? The answer is more complicated than it sounds.
For the record, there is no statewide age restriction on trick or treating in Illinois. But many small communities around the country set formal and informal age limits.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/10/31/too-old-trick-or-treat/
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The MCA’s wonderul - and very fun (despite this picture) - corrective of every assumption you ever held about @yokoono. You crawl into sacks, you hammer nails into canvas…
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‘Yoko Ono: Music of the Mind’ at the MCA upends assumptions
This new Yoko Ono retrospective is epic but intimate, impossibly earnest but funny and full of irony, without a single wink.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/10/23/yoko-ono-music-of-the-mind-at-the-mca-upends-assumptions/?share=gt0syotoonctitnhoooo
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The MCA’s wonderul - and very fun (despite this picture) - corrective of every assumption you ever held about @yokoono. You crawl into sacks, you hammer nails into canvas…
www.chicagotribune.com/2025/10/23/y...
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‘Yoko Ono: Music of the Mind’ at the MCA upends assumptions
This new Yoko Ono retrospective is epic but intimate, impossibly earnest but funny and full of irony, without a single wink.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/10/23/yoko-ono-music-of-the-mind-at-the-mca-upends-assumptions/?share=gt0syotoonctitnhoooo
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I wrote a profile of Michael Myers (of Decatur), who has been haunting his Indiana subdivision (and millions on social media) for 12 years. Once the mask goes on, HE WILL NOT TALK TO YOU.
www.chicagotribune.com/2025/10/16/m...
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Endless Halloween: The haunting life of Michael Myers of Decatur, Indiana
A few years back, Evan Zimmerman started dressing up as the killer from the “Halloween” movies. Videos of him in character have been viewed many millions of times.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/10/16/michael-myers-costume-videos/
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A lot of darkness going on but this is a worthwhile read and respite from the always awesome
@borrelli.bsky.social
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A few years back, Evan Zimmerman started dressing up as the killer from the “Halloween” movies. Videos of him in character have been viewed many millions of times.
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Endless Halloween: The haunting life of Michael Myers of Decatur, Indiana
A few years back, Evan Zimmerman started dressing up as the killer from the “Halloween” movies. Videos of him in character have been viewed many millions of times.
https://trib.al/dVhfMva
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I wrote a profile of Michael Myers (of Decatur), who has been haunting his Indiana subdivision (and millions on social media) for 12 years. Once the mask goes on, HE WILL NOT TALK TO YOU.
www.chicagotribune.com/2025/10/16/m...
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Endless Halloween: The haunting life of Michael Myers of Decatur, Indiana
A few years back, Evan Zimmerman started dressing up as the killer from the “Halloween” movies. Videos of him in character have been viewed many millions of times.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/10/16/michael-myers-costume-videos/
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“Revolution(s),” by Chicago playwright Zayd Ayers Dohrn, has music by Tom Morello and was inspired by his legacy of musical bomb-throwing.
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Speaking truth to power: Tom Morello on his Goodman debut, activist art and growing up in Libertyville
“Revolution(s),” by Chicago playwright Zayd Ayers Dohrn, has music by the Rage Against the Machine guitarist and was inspired by his legacy of musical bomb-throwing.
https://trib.al/a8PsMW1
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My chat with
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on the role of music in activism, his childhood in Libertyville and “Revolution(s),” his new show at the Goodman Theatre
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Speaking truth to power: Tom Morello on his Goodman debut, activist art and growing up in Libertyville
“Revolution(s),” by Chicago playwright Zayd Ayers Dohrn, has music by the Rage Against the Machine guitarist and was inspired by his legacy of musical bomb-throwing.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/10/10/tom-morello-goodman/?share=cdacaow0erernc0omlsa
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If you’re looking for a scary read this Halloween season, my roundup of the best horror lit of the year, w/
@raforall.bsky.social
@keithrosson.bsky.social
@rachelharrison.bsky.social
@ericlarocca.bsky.social
@sgj.bsky.social
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Poking around the scary, horrible, disgusting, excellent cauldron of new horror lit
Horror lit is in an unprecedented renaissance right now, driven by a diverse crop of new writers, robust horror sections in bookstores and the spread of horror-only book clubs. But all roads lead b…
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/10/02/horror-literature/
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If you’re looking for a scary read this Halloween season, my roundup of the best horror lit of the year, w/
@raforall.bsky.social
@keithrosson.bsky.social
@rachelharrison.bsky.social
@ericlarocca.bsky.social
@sgj.bsky.social
@cynthiapelayo.bsky.social
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Poking around the scary, horrible, disgusting, excellent cauldron of new horror lit
Horror lit is in an unprecedented renaissance right now, driven by a diverse crop of new writers, robust horror sections in bookstores and the spread of horror-only book clubs. But all roads lead b…
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/10/02/horror-literature/
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As 'SNL' begins its 51st season tonight, my piece on the unappreciated art of the SNL commercial bumper, which have been made by only two people in 51 seasons.
www.chicagotribune.com/2025/10/03/s...
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As ‘SNL’ begins its 51st season, an appreciation of those celeb ‘bumper’ photos
The portraits have all been made by two photographers, Mary Ellen Matthews and Edie Baskin, who have collected their work in recent art books.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/10/03/snl-celebrity-photographs/
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Super cool to find ACQUIRED TASTE highlighted in this pretty expansive article about our horror lit boom in the Chicago Tribune this morning. Immense thanks to Christopher Borrelli for including my “quasi-Kingian” collection. Love it. Read the article here:
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As 'SNL' begins its 51st season tonight, my piece on the unappreciated art of the SNL commercial bumper, which have been made by only two people in 51 seasons.
www.chicagotribune.com/2025/10/03/s...
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As ‘SNL’ begins its 51st season, an appreciation of those celeb ‘bumper’ photos
The portraits have all been made by two photographers, Mary Ellen Matthews and Edie Baskin, who have collected their work in recent art books.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/10/03/snl-celebrity-photographs/
about 1 month ago
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about 2 months ago
When “The Paper” and its location were announced earlier this year, former Blade staffers lit up social media, skeptical of how crazy this show could possibly get — how true to actually working at The Blade could a sitcom be and still be believable?
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Column: You think your office is a sitcom? I worked at Toledo’s Blade newspaper, a loose inspiration for ‘The Paper’
The new Peacock sitcom set at a Toledo newspaper is by the creators of “The Office.” Some real newspaper staffers in that Ohio city threw a little watch party in a basement bar recently.
https://trib.al/l5dJ3t6
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Having worked there myself, I wrote about the craziness of working at the actual Toledo Blade newspaper that partly inspired the fake paper in Peacock’s The Paper
www.chicagotribune.com/2025/09/25/c...
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Column: You think your office is a sitcom? I worked at Toledo’s Blade newspaper, a loose inspiration for ‘The Paper’
The new Peacock sitcom set at a Toledo newspaper is by the creators of “The Office.” Some real newspaper staffers in that Ohio city threw a little watch party in a basement bar recently.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/09/25/column-you-think-your-office-is-a-sitcom-i-worked-at-toledos-blade-newspaper-a-loose-inspiration-for-the-paper/?share=ononoadurdeso0rindai
about 2 months ago
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Having worked there myself, I wrote about the craziness of working at the actual Toledo Blade newspaper that partly inspired the fake paper in Peacock’s The Paper
www.chicagotribune.com/2025/09/25/c...
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Column: You think your office is a sitcom? I worked at Toledo’s Blade newspaper, a loose inspiration for ‘The Paper’
The new Peacock sitcom set at a Toledo newspaper is by the creators of “The Office.” Some real newspaper staffers in that Ohio city threw a little watch party in a basement bar recently.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/09/25/column-you-think-your-office-is-a-sitcom-i-worked-at-toledos-blade-newspaper-a-loose-inspiration-for-the-paper/?share=ononoadurdeso0rindai
about 2 months ago
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My piece on why the fall arts season is, yes, as political as you think, whether it intends to be or not. W
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www.chicagotribune.com/2025/09/05/f...
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Column: Fall Arts Season 2025, or When politics can’t be avoided
Someday, someone might look back on 2025 and pick through the mountain of symphonies and movies and novels and museum exhibits that were being offered in Chicago. But never mind future historians, …
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/09/05/fall-arts-whats-relevant/
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My piece on why the fall arts season is, yes, as political as you think, whether it intends to be or not. W
@brucespringsteen.net
@artinstitutechi.bsky.social
@riotfest.bsky.social
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www.chicagotribune.com/2025/09/05/f...
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Column: Fall Arts Season 2025, or When politics can’t be avoided
Someday, someone might look back on 2025 and pick through the mountain of symphonies and movies and novels and museum exhibits that were being offered in Chicago. But never mind future historians, …
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/09/05/fall-arts-whats-relevant/
about 2 months ago
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Manifesting the Tribune’s giant fall book package w/
@sarahweinman.com
@rachelcorbett.bsky.social
@lizgilbert.bsky.social
@angelaflournoy.bsky.social
@grady-chambers.bsky.social
@jelaniya.bsky.social
@bethmacy.bsky.social
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Books for fall 2025: Luigi, Ozzy and the great beyond
The endless to-be-read list on your phone, the ready-to-be-read stack on your bedside table, should expect company, regardless of whether you read cozy mysteries or harrowing memoirs.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/09/11/fall-book-preview-2025/
about 2 months ago
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@rachelcorbett.bsky.social
@lizgilbert.bsky.social
@angelaflournoy.bsky.social
@grady-chambers.bsky.social
@jelaniya.bsky.social
@bethmacy.bsky.social
@charlesfinch.bsky.social
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Books for fall 2025: Luigi, Ozzy and the great beyond
The endless to-be-read list on your phone, the ready-to-be-read stack on your bedside table, should expect company, regardless of whether you read cozy mysteries or harrowing memoirs.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/09/11/fall-book-preview-2025/
about 2 months ago
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Timing is everything. “Elizabeth Catlett: ‘A Black Revolutionary Artist and All That It Implies,’” a remarkably bracing new exhibit stuffed with politics and activism and fascism and standing up for everyday laborers and educators, arrives at the Art Institute of Chicago in a cultural hailstorm.
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Review: Art Institute’s Catlett show is unnervingly, thrillingly of the moment
“Elizabeth Catlett: ‘A Black Revolutionary Artist and All That It Implies'” is full of artwork that stops you in your tracks when you meant to be walking through the exhibit.
https://trib.al/EfUpvaW
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It started with just a few people meeting on the lakefront on Sunday evenings to let out their feelings by screaming. There are now chapters in Lisbon and London.
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Shout out! The weekly Scream Club Chicago taps into a need — and has already gone global
It started with just a few people meeting on the lakefront on Sunday evenings to let out their feelings by screaming. There are now chapters in Lisbon and London.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/09/03/shout-out-the-weekly-scream-club-chicago-taps-into-a-need-and-has-already-gone-global/
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My profile of the long unsung Peter_Orner, whose new novel, The Gossip's Columnist's Daughter -- a love letter to Chicago, a long-forgotten true crime tale, a strange bit of Highland Park history -- is looking like the best novel of the year
www.chicagotribune.com/2025/08/21/p...
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Peter Orner, the best kept literary secret from Chicago no longer?
His new novel, “The Gossip Columnist’s Daughter,” is about the death of Sun-Times columnist Irv Kupcinet’s daughter. Whatever he writes about, he never shakes Chicago.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/08/21/peter-orner-chicago/?share=gaehpo8ohoo8nrctaeis
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My profile of the long unsung Peter_Orner, whose new novel, The Gossip's Columnist's Daughter -- a love letter to Chicago, a long-forgotten true crime tale, a strange bit of Highland Park history -- is looking like the best novel of the year
www.chicagotribune.com/2025/08/21/p...
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Peter Orner, the best kept literary secret from Chicago no longer?
His new novel, “The Gossip Columnist’s Daughter,” is about the death of Sun-Times columnist Irv Kupcinet’s daughter. Whatever he writes about, he never shakes Chicago.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/08/21/peter-orner-chicago/?share=gaehpo8ohoo8nrctaeis
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My piece on Jacob Reno, self-proclaimed bad artist, now much in demand around Chicago for his services
www.chicagotribune.com/2025/08/20/c...
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Terrible Chicago artist draws terrible Chicago portraits. And finds a niche.
Jacob Ryan Reno, long and boyish, wearing the kind of blue smock you imagine a painter would wear in a cartoon about a painter, is not good at his job.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/08/20/chicago-artist-terrible-portraits/?share=erlceaawocbsciir2hoh
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My piece on Jacob Reno, self-proclaimed bad artist, now much in demand around Chicago for his services
www.chicagotribune.com/2025/08/20/c...
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Terrible Chicago artist draws terrible Chicago portraits. And finds a niche.
Jacob Ryan Reno, long and boyish, wearing the kind of blue smock you imagine a painter would wear in a cartoon about a painter, is not good at his job.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/08/20/chicago-artist-terrible-portraits/?share=erlceaawocbsciir2hoh
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To know them is to loath them: Oak Park’s Alec Nevala-Lee finds a niche, writing about science’s biggest jerks
Alec Nevala-Lee of Oak Park has developed a talent for writing quite accessible histories of the boorish but brilliant.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/08/13/alec-nevala-lee-books/
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To know them is to loath them: Oak Park’s Alec Nevala-Lee finds a niche, writing about science’s biggest jerks
Alec Nevala-Lee of Oak Park has developed a talent for writing quite accessible histories of the boorish but brilliant.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/08/13/alec-nevala-lee-books/
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My profile of Dolton, the Pope’s hometown, after the cameras leave
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Long after the fuss over Pope Leo XIV, the village of Dolton will still be here
If you’re planning a pilgrimage to the pope’s hometown this summer, keep in mind that Dolton never asked to be considered remarkable. Except, in its own way, it is. Just like wherever it is you cam…
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/07/07/dolton-illinois-visit-pope-hometown/?share=otoeoen2optapitp7ovl
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My piece on Oak Park's Alec Nevala-Lee, who found his niche as a writer - the biographies of science’s great assholes - the boorish, but brilliant.
www.chicagotribune.com/2025/08/13/a...
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To know them is to loath them: Oak Park’s Alec Nevala-Lee finds a niche, writing about science’s biggest jerks
Alec Nevala-Lee of Oak Park has developed a talent for writing quite accessible histories of the boorish but brilliant.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/08/13/alec-nevala-lee-books/
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My piece on Oak Park's Alec Nevala-Lee, who found his niche as a writer - the biographies of science’s great assholes - the boorish, but brilliant.
www.chicagotribune.com/2025/08/13/a...
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To know them is to loath them: Oak Park’s Alec Nevala-Lee finds a niche, writing about science’s biggest jerks
Alec Nevala-Lee of Oak Park has developed a talent for writing quite accessible histories of the boorish but brilliant.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/08/13/alec-nevala-lee-books/
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The Chicago Humanities Festival announces its fall lineup at a time when many cultural institutions face a bleak future of almost zero public funding.
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Chicago Humanities Fall Festival faces the decline of the humanities with lineup including Margaret Atwood, Kate McKinnon
The Chicago Humanities Festival announces its fall lineup at a time when many cultural institutions face a bleak future of almost zero public funding.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/08/11/chicago-humanities-festival-2025/
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My profile of Dolton, the Pope’s hometown, after the cameras leave
www.chicagotribune.com/2025/07/07/d...
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Long after the fuss over Pope Leo XIV, the village of Dolton will still be here
If you’re planning a pilgrimage to the pope’s hometown this summer, keep in mind that Dolton never asked to be considered remarkable. Except, in its own way, it is. Just like wherever it is you cam…
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/07/07/dolton-illinois-visit-pope-hometown/?share=otoeoen2optapitp7ovl
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Sabrina Carpenter is fun. Her stage, festooned with a huge curling “SC” traced in stage lights, not only paid homage to Chicago as the original home of “Soul Train,” she and her dancers threw in their own version of a “Soul Train” line dance.
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Review: Sabrina Carpenter closes Lollapalooza with confectionary joy and perfect surprises
Our pool of genuinely funny music performers has never been large. Musicians get timid about humor, with reason. Audiences take earnest artists seriously and let time and taste catch up to anyone w…
https://trib.al/yRD6fai
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As joyful and virtuosic and oddly touching as “Weird Al” Yankovic’s two-hour whirligig was on Sunday night at Ravinia Festival, I couldn’t help watch without sadness: Here is the last of the great parody kings, writes Christopher Borrelli.
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Review: The lesson of ‘Weird Al’ Yankovic: We’ll miss him when he’s gone
His two-hour concert on Sunday night at Ravinia Festival was a reminder of how the talent and glorious stupidity of his parody songs can never be repeated.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/06/30/review-weird-al-yankovic-ravinia/
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Breaking Chicago Pizza News: Great Lake has returned to Andersonville after 12 years - as strange as ever.
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Chicago pizza royalty Great Lake returns, idiosyncratic as ever
Great Lake, the legendary (and legendarily iconoclastic) pizza joint that fixated (and sometimes frustrated) Andersonville for five years, has returned, a dozen years later.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/06/25/great-lake-pizza-returns/
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My piece on @newyorker.com’s A.J. Liebling, who moved to Chicago 75 years ago and left with a very catty, very funny, pretty dead-on profile of the city that lives, to this day, rent-free in the city’s consciousness, and gave it a nickname: Second City
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Was A.J. Liebling right about Chicago? Decades after the New Yorker’s ‘Second City,’ time for a second reading
Why does one book live rent-free in Chicago’s head? We went back to his 1952 assessment of our city to find out what he got right, what he got wrong and why it still feels so hard to shake.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/06/24/was-a-j-liebling-right-about-chicago-decades-after-the-new-yorkers-second-city-time-for-a-second-reading/
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Breaking Chicago Pizza News: Great Lake has returned to Andersonville after 12 years - as strange as ever.
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Chicago pizza royalty Great Lake returns, idiosyncratic as ever
Great Lake, the legendary (and legendarily iconoclastic) pizza joint that fixated (and sometimes frustrated) Andersonville for five years, has returned, a dozen years later.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/06/25/great-lake-pizza-returns/
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My piece on @newyorker.com’s A.J. Liebling, who moved to Chicago 75 years ago and left with a very catty, very funny, pretty dead-on profile of the city that lives, to this day, rent-free in the city’s consciousness, and gave it a nickname: Second City
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Was A.J. Liebling right about Chicago? Decades after the New Yorker’s ‘Second City,’ time for a second reading
Why does one book live rent-free in Chicago’s head? We went back to his 1952 assessment of our city to find out what he got right, what he got wrong and why it still feels so hard to shake.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/06/24/was-a-j-liebling-right-about-chicago-decades-after-the-new-yorkers-second-city-time-for-a-second-reading/
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Before you go back in a water this summer: My piece on how Jaws complicated our relationship with swimming 50 years ago. (And that includes fresh water Great Lakes and backyard swimming pools.)
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Column: How ‘Jaws’ changed our chumminess with swimming 50 years ago this summer
Inside a theater: Audiences floated at the lip of the ocean, the waves casually slapping at the bottom of movie screens, reminding them, without spelling it out, that something’s below.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/05/23/jaws-movie-50-years-swimming/
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Our big annual AI-free summer book package, w/great new books by, take a breath,
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Summer books 2025: Get lost in our shelves of Chicago, spiritual or just plain weird books
Someday, when I open a bookstore and the big bucks roll in, I’ll display titles in narrow categories, ensuring no one finds anything and has to wander. This summer survey will be my trial run.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/06/11/summer-books-2025/
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Our big annual AI-free summer book package, w/great new books by, take a breath,
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Summer books 2025: Get lost in our shelves of Chicago, spiritual or just plain weird books
Someday, when I open a bookstore and the big bucks roll in, I’ll display titles in narrow categories, ensuring no one finds anything and has to wander. This summer survey will be my trial run.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/06/11/summer-books-2025/
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Our big annual AI-free summer book package, w/great new books by, take a breath,
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Summer books 2025: Get lost in our shelves of Chicago, spiritual or just plain weird books
Someday, when I open a bookstore and the big bucks roll in, I’ll display titles in narrow categories, ensuring no one finds anything and has to wander. This summer survey will be my trial run.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/06/11/summer-books-2025/
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