150,000 haircuts: Vic Lala looks back at 50 years on LaSalle Street

• by Ben Joravsky

A Shaky Start for Trib's New TV Critic/Reconstructive Surgery

• by Michael Miner
• Tags: Media, Hot Type

A Crowd of Patsys

• by Neal Pollack

The Straight Dope

• by Cecil Adams

Izzi's Honor

"I'm not what you'd call worldly. I don't want to go to Europe. I want to write good books, raise my kids, and live my life on my own terms, without kissing anyone's ass to do it."

• by Zak Mucha

Reader to Reader

• by T.A.S.
• Tags: Essay, Reader to Reader

The City File

• by Harold Henderson

The Sports Section

• by Allen Boomer

Friends of Freud

• by Thomas Pappadis

Phair Rebuttal

• by Don Rice

Rosenbaum on Rosenbaum

• by Jennifer Riddell

More on Judging Judges

• by Kevin Sweeney

Which Way to the Nearest Fallout Shelter?

And how long has it been since somebody dusted down there?

• by Cate Plys
• Tags: Miscellany, Feature

Reading: A Man and His Hand

Nicholson Baker's recent novels are expressions of the ultimate schoolboy ethos, modern epics of masturbation.

• by Michael Solot

Rock Star Blows Brains Out

Mr. Kurt--he dead.

• by Bill Wyman
• Tags: Music Sidebar, Hitsville

Freedom Fighter

• by Neil Tesser
• Tags: Music Review, Rock Etc.

Disarmed Forces

• by Warren Sentence
• Tags: Music Review, Rock Etc.

Waters Still Runs Deep

• by Jonathan Rosenbaum

Cielo de abajo

• by Albert Williams

Local Lit: the relaxed rage of Sam Greenlee

• by Rosalind Cummings

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Hedwig Dances Performance Company

• by Maura Troester

Chicago Opera Theater

• by Ted Shen

Bitter Moon

• by Jonathan Rosenbaum

J.J. Johnson

• by Neil Tesser

Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center

• by Ted Shen

Jimmy Smith

• by Neil Tesser

Waterstone's Fights Back/Chintzy Drabinsky/Little Voice's Slow Start

Joseph is pulling in $600,000 a week, and all Tony Sertich wants is a piddling $1,600 for the League of Chicago Theatres.

• by Lewis Lazare

Gallery Tripping: Stephen Szoradi's Blue Collar Cathedral

• by Fred Camper

Mavericks

• by Peter Margasak

Monomen

• by Rick Reger

The Glass Menagerie

• by Albert Williams

The Terror of Being Present

• by Justin Hayford
• Tags: Performing Arts Sidebar, Performance

The Baker's Daughter

• by Adam Langer

Boy Basement Battles The Demons of Sleep

• by Maura Troester

Crowd Pleasers

• by Laura Molzahn

Rebel; Ordering Lunch

• by Mary Shen Barnidge

Theater

• by Jack Helbig

Parts of Me Function Like a Dream; Bite Me!!!!!

• by Carmela Rago
• Tags: Performing Arts Sidebar, Performance

Improv, Improv, Everywhere

• by Stephanie Shaw

Are You Now, Or Have You Ever Been Mellow?; Semi-Dynamics

• by Lawrence Bommer

Mordine & Company Dance Theatre

• by Terry Brennan