Patchett, Just and a surprise
New Yorkers may find us clunky, Californians may find us chunky, but there's something about the Midwest -- especially its writers -- that captivates. What, exactly, constitutes a Midwestern writer?...
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CHICAGO HUMANITIES FESTIVAL
Sports Panel: "Two-Minute Warnings, Sudden Death Overtimes, and Running Out the Clock" (311), 11 a.m., Nov. 6, Ganz Hall, Roosevelt University. If you're a sports fan yearning for reasoned, knowledgeable...
The Loop’s aural tattoo
It's not just the noise. It's where the noise comes from. It's the fact that the crazy racket of the "L" trains originates from above. It cascades; it plummets. The...
The Loop’s aural tattoo
It's not just the noise. It's where the noise comes from. It's the fact that the crazy racket of the "L" trains originates from above. It cascades; it plummets. The...
The Loop’s aural tattoo
It's not just the noise. It's where the noise comes from. It's the fact that the crazy racket of the "L" trains originates from above. It cascades; it plummets. The...
The filling station that time forgot
Soulless ghost towns, that's what they are. Petroleum-dispensing plazas lacking even a scrap of uniqueness. Row upon row of gleaming pumps with thin-lipped slots for credit cards and beeping screens...
Life After Martha: Now what happens to the rest of us?
On page 103 of the April issue of a certain glossy magazine with particularly notorious nomenclature, you will find -- nestled amid the phosphorescent glamor of citrus roasted salmon and...
Chicagoans of the year: CULTURE
Academic writing, as everybody knows, is awful: Most of the time, it's thick and showy and willfully obtuse. Why be clear and simple, some professors seem to believe, when you...
Tribune critics: Gifts to make the season…
Tribune critics: Gifts to make the season bright MOVIE CRITIC MICHAEL WILMINGTON THRILLERS & CHILLERS "Wrong Men & Notorious Women: Five Hitchcock Thrillers 1935-1946" This new set, packed with valuable...
CRITICS’ PICKS
The 14th Chicago Humanities Festival (Saving+Spending) explores the economics of our choices and their human consequences -- what we cherish . . . what we allow to perish. In a...