- Music, Music Feature, May 23, 2013
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The return of Dance Mania Records
Twelve years after it folded, the Chicago label that helped birth ghetto house, juke, and footwork music makes a play for the new EDM crowd.
- Music, Music Feature, May 8, 2013
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What music's outsiders and oddballs got up to before the Internet
A new coffee-table book and CD set documents the weird bygone world of private-press records.
- News & Features, Feature, Apr 25, 2013
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The man who transformed high school baseball on the south side
Simeon Career Academy's veteran high school coach has spent three decades building an unlikely baseball dynasty. Will Leroy Franklin and his Wolverines finally get the recognition they deserve?
- Music, Music Feature, Apr 17, 2013
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Of Paramount's importance
Record Store Day is a good day to remember that a subsidiary of a Wisconsin furniture company released some of the most significant blues records of the 1920s.
- Performing Arts, Culture Vultures, Apr 4, 2013
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This week's Culture Vultures recommend:
House of Cards, There Is a Happiness That Morning Is, The Boy Detective Fails, and Chicago Whispers
- Lit & Lectures, Lit Feature, Apr 3, 2013
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A history of gang violence: The Almighty Black P Stone Nation
A conversation about the five-decade evolution of a Chicago street gang
- News & Features, Feature, Mar 27, 2013
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Standardized testing overkill at CPS
Even Chicago school officials allow that they're giving students too many standardized tests. Will they really cut back?
- News & Features, Michael Miner on Media, Mar 6, 2013
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The story behind the story of the game that changed college basketball
Mike Lenehan's Ramblers aims to go behind the headlines about racial integration and the 1963 NCAA regional semifinals.
- News & Features, Feature, Feb 27, 2013
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An endangered piece of history beneath Lake Michigan's surface
The shipwreck of the Silver Spray has rested a stone's throw from the Hyde Park shoreline for nearly 100 years—but it may not be around for much longer.
- News & Features, Feature, Feb 27, 2013
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What lies at the bottom of Lake Michigan
Five historic shipwrecks—and perhaps some preserved corpses
- Performing Arts, Performing Arts Review, Sep 29, 2011
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Hysteria!
Victorian sex lives exposed in Sarah Ruhl's In the Next Room
- News & Features, Chicago Reader at Forty, Jan 20, 2011
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1973
The year in Chicago history via the pages of the Reader
- Blogs, Bleader, Oct 22, 2009
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You Weren't There (and Neither Was I)
"You Weren't There: A History of Chicago Punk 1977-84" celebrates its release on DVD with a Saturday screening at the Portage Theater, followed by a show at the Empty Bottle.
- Blogs, Bleader, Jul 27, 2009
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But did he call it Public Enemy #1?
- Blogs, Bleader, Jul 17, 2009
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Tower-Which-Must-Not-Be-Named
- Blogs, Bleader, Jun 10, 2009
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Post office odds & ends
Some notes on the old main post office, in case you're thinking of bidding.
- Blogs, Bleader, Jan 20, 2009
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Inauguration: It's never too early to be prepared
Inauguration: The end of "history." Please.
- Blogs, Bleader, Mar 18, 2008
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American pastoral
Taking up the biracial presidential candidate's burden.
- Blogs, Bleader, Mar 5, 2008
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Reader guides and more
Guides to Chicago, from the Columbian Expo years to the Reader era.
- Blogs, Bleader, Feb 22, 2008
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Zenith Phonevision, Chicago's early experiment in pay-per-view
Chicago was the first place on earth to have pay-per-view, and the new technology got a now-familiar reception.
