- Blogs, Bleader, May 21, 2013
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ArtPlace America ignites Great Chicago Fire Festival with $250,000 grant
A brand-new grant adds flame to the pyre.
- Blogs, Bleader, May 21, 2013
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Did you read about the Oklahoma tornado, Hillary Rodham Clinton, and Phil Jackson?
Also Gus Wenner, Twin Prime Conjecture, female anxiety, the anchored putting stroke, and 3-D printing pizza?
- Blogs, Bleader, May 21, 2013
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A look at immoderation on the pundit front
Tyranny—one more thing to worry about
- Blogs, Bleader, May 20, 2013
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Remembering Chicago's great school boycott of 1963
Kartemquin Films documents the city's last big school protest—just in time for the present one.
- Blogs, Bleader, May 20, 2013
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Did you read about ketamine, Tumblr, and the New York Times?
Also the income-inequality gap, the personal e-mails of a Fox News reporter, dolls with 3-D printed-replica heads, and John Hollinger?
- Blogs, Bleader, May 17, 2013
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Did you read about Eric Holder, the Village Voice, and The Third Coast?
Also women running for office, an evicted Rogers Park couple, a jewel heist, and Mr. Men?
- Blogs, Bleader, May 16, 2013
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Doing it wrong on guns, Chicago-style
With guns as in schools, mental health, and economic development—you can count on Chicago to do the wrong thing.
- Blogs, Bleader, May 16, 2013
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Before Obama's enemies came down on him he was catching it from his friends
The case for President Obama as authoritarian didn't begin with his enemies.
- Blogs, Bleader, May 16, 2013
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Did you read about David Simon, Dan Brown, and KFC in Gaza?
Also the IRS "scandal," a letter to the Department of Justice, Dave Meltzer, a New Criterion theater critic, and the Wiggles?
- Blogs, Bleader, May 15, 2013
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Red Plum forever! Whether Tribune subscribers like it or not.
My continuing Red Plum assignment . . .
- Blogs, Bleader, May 15, 2013
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Mayor Rahm's Chicago—in black and white
The racial breakdown in the Tribune poll on Mayor Emanuel and the schools shows that how you view the mayor depends on how he's been treating your community.
- Blogs, Bleader, May 15, 2013
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Did you read about Floyd Mayweather, Shane MacGowan, and Bea Arthur Naked?
Also oligarchs in Silicon Valley, the Red Line, Alaskan "climate refugees," Jaron Lanier, skywriting jokes, and a giant rubber duck in Hong Kong?
- Blogs, Bleader, May 15, 2013
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Without le Carré, would we have The Americans?
When spies had to choose—marriage or the Cold War?
- Blogs, Bleader, May 14, 2013
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Did you read about the IRS, Terrence Malick, and foodies?
Also wealth distribution, doctors, reporters' telephone records, a 2,300-year-old Mayan pyramid, public libraries, empathy, loneliness, and Judy Blume's Tiger Eyes.
- Blogs, Bleader, May 14, 2013
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Red Plum/Local Values, the ad rag that keeps coming
Just try to stop delivery of the Tribune's advertising throwaway.
- Blogs, Bleader, May 13, 2013
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Did you read about Malcolm Shabazz, Benjamin Netanyahu, and Gwyneth Paltrow?
Also carbon dioxide, money laundering, hate tweets, and Iliana Regan?
- Blogs, Bleader, May 10, 2013
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ATMs: Automated Theft Machines
ATMs have recently been looted of $45 million, prosecutors in New York revealed yesterday.
- Blogs, Bleader, May 10, 2013
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On throwing Derrick Rose into the breach
The Bulls need more than inspiration from their sidelined star.
- Blogs, Bleader, May 10, 2013
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Did you read about Jean-Bertrand Aristide, Rachel Shteir, and the Portage Theater?
Also meteors, hippopotamus, Wagner's Tannhauser, a fourth grader's guerrilla documentary, and musicians?
- Blogs, Bleader, May 9, 2013
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Is segregation really bad for everyone?
A new study suggests that segregation harms all of us. If that were true we might be more committed to fighting it.
