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Hey, did you read:
• Jim DeRogatis's negative assessment of this year's Pitchfork Music Festival? —Ben Sachs
• Paul Krugman on how Detroit isn't really the new Greece? —Tal Rosenberg
• About the south and west side submarine sandwich phenomenon known as the Jim Shoe? —Mike Sula
• Seven years after he was last in the big leagues, former star Cubs pitcher Mark Prior is still trying to make a comeback? —Mick Dumke
• Also: How investment bankers are manipulating the price of metals and threatening capitalism itself? —Mick Dumke
• Now that it's operating at a profit, the Port of Chicago is about to be leased to a private firm for 62 years? —Deanna Isaacs
• This defense of Sex and the City by the great Emily Nussbaum? ("It’s a classic misunderstanding, I think, stemming from an unexamined hierarchy: the assumption that anything stylized (or formulaic, or pleasurable, or funny, or feminine, or explicit about sex rather than about violence, or made collaboratively) must be inferior.") —Aimee Levitt
• DJ Rashad discussing every track on his new EP? —Leor Galil