- Blogs, Bleader, Jan 11, 2013
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Gangster Squad is the most violent Hollywood movie in . . . two weeks
Ruben Fleischer's new gangster epic is gonna get even with you
- Blogs, Bleader, Dec 19, 2012
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Managing editor Jerome Ludwig leaves the Reader
He will be greatly missed, but to say that is completely insufficient
- Blogs, Bleader, Dec 15, 2012
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Reader fiction, past and future
A sampling of great fiction that's appeared in the Chicago Reader over the years
- Blogs, Bleader, Dec 9, 2012
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Jack Clark, the original cabdriver-writer
This cabbie is no hack
- Blogs, Bleader, Nov 25, 2012
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Harold Washington, Chicago politics, and the roots of the Obama presidency
A new edition of Gary Rivlin's chronicle of the Harold Washington years, Fire on the Prairie
- Blogs, Bleader, Nov 1, 2012
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Newspaper circulation as simple as ABC
Under the ABC's revised counting system, the Sun-Times leads Chicago in circulation
- Blogs, Bleader, Oct 9, 2012
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The Reader's general manager is let go
Sun-Times Media dismisses the Chicago Reader's general manager, Mary Jo Madden
- Blogs, Bleader, Oct 9, 2012
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Tori Marlan's latest: Stowaway, a nonfiction graphic novel
Former Reader staffer Tori Marlan writes a nonfiction graphic novel about an Ethiopian street kid who wound up in Chicago
- Blogs, Bleader, Oct 7, 2012
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Chris Ware's Building Stories: a visual tour
A new graphic work, in pictures
- News & Features, Michael Miner on Media, Aug 7, 2012
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Leaving my Reader office for the last time
Packing up suddenly became inevitable and imminent. The new question was where to unpack.
- Blogs, Bleader, Aug 1, 2012
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Give me a slice and a cold one—it's moving day
The Reader's transition to the Sun-Times building is forcing me to come to grips with a different kind of moving on
- Blogs, Bleader, Jul 31, 2012
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Turning my office inside-out
Sifting trough 15 years of trash and treasure.
- Blogs, Bleader, Jul 30, 2012
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All this week on the Bleader: What do you take with you when you move?
If I don't love it or need it, it's not coming with me
- Blogs, Bleader, Jun 22, 2012
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Matt Groening and the Reader—joined at the hip
Matt Groening ends "Life in Hell"
- Blogs, Bleader, Jun 15, 2012
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I can bite the Tribune, but what about the hand that feeds me?
On a media critic biting the hand that feeds him
- Blogs, Bleader, Jun 6, 2012
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Sci-fi legend Ray Bradbury dies at age 91
The author of Fahrenheit 451 and other works passes on
- Blogs, Bleader, Jun 1, 2012
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Galled by the Reader's sale to the Sun-Times? Not really.
Thoughts on returning to the employ of a company willing to pay me to bite the hand that feeds me
- Blogs, Bleader, May 28, 2012
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What does "alternative" mean anymore?
When does an alternative form of culture stop being alternative?
- Blogs, Bleader, May 25, 2012
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Working for the Sun-Times—just like Mike Royko!
After all these years, I finally join the Sun-Times
- Blogs, Bleader, May 23, 2012
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Wrapports buys the Reader
The owner of Sun-Times Media is now also the owner of the Chicago Reader
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