Wednesday, November 30, 2011
Lit & Lectures Food & Drink Books Recipes in the words of famous authors
Posted by Julia Thiel on 11.30.11 at 06:00 PM
Maybe it's because I majored in English, but I was excited yesterday when I came across the Independent's excerpts from The Household Tips of the Great Writers by Mark Crick, which imagines how various authors would write recipes: clafoutis by Virginia Woolf, an onion tart from Chaucer, lamb with dill sauce from Raymond Chandler. It helped, of course, that they came up with a great headline: "Reader, I marinated it."
Media News Sun-Times Media in play?
Posted by Michael Miner on 11.30.11 at 05:41 PM
A group of investors is being assembled to buy Sun-Times Media Holdings LLC, Crain's Chicago Business reported Wednesday. Leading the charge is Michael Ferro Jr., CEO of Merrick Ventures LLC, and the offer reportedly being considered is $14 million plus assumption of debt.
I suggest keeping an eye on the CCB brief not simply for further developments but to read the comments collecting at the bottom. There are only a few as I write this, but they're an intriguing sampling of reasons why CCB readers say they don't read the Sun-Times.
"Too liberal," says one. "Subserviently appeasing and politically correct."
Fire Jack Higgins, Stella Foster, and Mike Sneed, says another.
These contributions make turning the paper and company around sound like a piece of cake.
Politics Clout City The Sis and Maggie Daley Cultural Center of Chicago?
Posted by Deanna Isaacs on 11.30.11 at 05:00 PM
Here’s what Sis Daley told the Chicago Tribune’s John Kass in 1999, after he campaigned to get the Chicago Cultural Center named for her:
“Thank you so much, but no thanks. . .Chicago is a better name for that building. Chicago is a prettier name than Sis Daley, and it means more to all sorts of people.”
Crickets Music Czar ends 2011 with a headbang
Posted by Miles Raymer on 11.30.11 at 04:00 PM
- Czar
Style Marni for H&M
Posted by Heather Kenny on 11.30.11 at 03:00 PM
Music Post No Bills The Killer is back
Posted by Peter Margasak on 11.30.11 at 02:00 PM
I wrote a preview of Lewis's July show, and you can read it again (and watch a great live video) after the jump:
Sports The Blackhawks' flaky personality
Posted by Ted Cox on 11.30.11 at 01:00 PM
- Wikimedia Commons
- Patrick Kane
Film Now on DVD: Monte Carlo
Posted by Ben Sachs on 11.30.11 at 12:00 PM
The Reefer Politics Clout City Evanston decriminalizes reefer!
Posted by Ben Joravsky on 11.30.11 at 11:23 AM
No, they didn't beat New Trier at football—sigh. But what they did was almost as good—they decriminalized marijuana.
Media News Bites News A couple of judges on criminal justice
Posted by Michael Miner on 11.30.11 at 09:38 AM
I’ve recently read reviews by both retired Supreme Court justice John Paul Stevens and the nation’s best-known federal appellate judge, Richard J. Posner, on The Collapse of American Criminal Justice, by William Stuntz, a law professor at Harvard who died earlier this year. The New York Review of Books, for which Stevens wrote, and the New Republic, Posner’s venue, gave them plenty of space, and they made the most of it. Both greatly respect Stuntz’s book, but they have issues, and these begin with the title. “I would not characterize the defects in American criminal justice that he describes as a ‘collapse,’ and I found his chapter about ‘Earl Warren’s Errors’ surprisingly unpersuasive,” writes Stevens. “The American criminal justice system is not in a state of collapse, or even in any danger of collapse,” writes Posner.
