Even before late May, I heard that Lifeline Theatre,a respected theater in the Chicago's Rogers Park neighorhood was putting on a play adaptation of officialgaiman's Neverwhere. But thanks to a post on rowandoll's Facebook wall, I found out that they were running a photo contest to go along with it. Since the original TV mini-series was set in the secret world beneath ( Read more... )

I was heading home from a meeting I was covering for Austin Weekly News on the Brown 'L' line when a woman stepped onto the train and said:

"Do you want the entire train to hear the name of your secret lover ( Read more... )

I don't really have time to do as detailed of a post as I want - especially with another protest coming up tomorrow morning. So, instead, I have to settle for copy-pasting a description I put on Flickr and add some of the more interesting photos from the set. You can see the entire photo set hereThis protest has been in the works more or less since ( Read more... )

I was cleaning out my Firefox tabs when I realized that I never got around to writing about the September 28 "Heart of the Hood" column about something that seemed tailor-made to piss hettie_lz off ( Read more... )

In January 2015, Chicago Reader staff voted to unionize, joining what was then known as the Chicago Newspaper Guild (they since dropped the "paper" part). A year and nine months later, they still don't have a contract. Michael Ferro apparently had to be dragged to negotiations kicking and screaming, and things haven't gotten much better since he ( Read more... )

Earlier today, Robert Feder reported what is nothing short of an end of an era in Chicago media. Ann Gerber, who's been covering the Chicago high society since 1960, is retiring.
( And honestly, I'm kind of shocked )

I've written about Cabrini-Green many times before. Until the early 2000s, it was one of Chicago's most infamous public housing developments - in no small part because it was located close to the Gold Coast, one the city's wealthiest neighborhoods ( Read more... )

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A collection of video footage of CHicago, most of which is over a 100 years old, which includes quite a few 19th century films and, yes, the oldest known footage of Chicago ever (that we know of as of this writing)

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Some more background info here

A recent Chicago Tribune editorial brought something to my attention that made me shake my head ( Read more... )