Monday, April 21, 2014
Did You Read __________? / News Did you read about Rubin 'Hurricane' Carter, gutter punks, and Detroit?
Posted By Reader staff on 04.21.14 at 11:37 AM
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- AP Photo/Rich Pedroncelli
- Here ends the story of the Hurricane.
Hey, did you read:
• About the five kids wounded in a drive-by shooting near 66th and Michigan yesterday evening? —Steve Bogira
• About the death (and life) of former boxer Rubin "Hurricane" Carter, who was wrongly convicted of murder twice? —Mick Dumke
• That a 16-year-old kid apparently hid in the wheel well of a Boeing 767, flew from LA to Hawaii, and lived to tell the tale? —Drew Hunt
• About the city's crackdown on gutter punks in Wicker Park? —Tal Rosenberg
• About the generational divide in hat-wearing among black women in church? —Steve Bogira
That downstate emo icons American Football are reuniting?
• The entirety of Grantland's Detroit Week, in which they devoted an entire week to the Motor City? —Tal Rosenberg
• That Chicago is America's funniest city? —Aimee Levitt
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