- Blogs, Bleader Apr 19, 2018
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Chairwoman Preckwinkle's Machine takeover a far cry from days of Fast Eddie
To beat the Machine, you gotta be the Machine and other lessons for Toni Preckwinkle and the next generation of Democratic Party leaders.
- Blogs, Bleader Apr 6, 2018
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Former Chicago gossip columnist Liz Crokin is now a star among far-right conspiracy theorists
The Chicago-area native dished tabloid-style gossip here for almost a decade. Now she's a leader in a fringe right-wing online community spreading a bizarre political conspiracy theory.
- Blogs, Bleader Apr 6, 2018
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Life after Sylvia: Cartoonist Nicole Hollander publishes a memoir
We Ate Wonder Bread is a graphic memoir of growing up on the west side in the 50s and 60s.
- Blogs, Bleader Mar 27, 2018
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Chicago’s political psychosis has me paging Dr. Freud after last week’s primary
If you want to know why Trump, Rauner, and Rahm are in power, just study the latest election.
- Blogs, Bleader Jan 30, 2018
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The Reader helped you survive Bob Greene, and it will help you survive the super blue blood moon
In "Bobwatch," for two glorious years, "Ed Gold" read the Tribune columnist so you didn't have to.
- Arts & Culture, Feature Jan 10, 2018
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Brian Posen is gone. Stage 773 goes on.
After the powerful Chicago comedy-scene figure's departure amid harassment allegations, the theater behind SketchFest begins a new era without him.
- Music, Worst of Chicago Dec 21, 2017
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What Chicago media gets wrong about Chance, Keef, and the local hip-hop scene
Critics who fall back on shallow tropes and ignorant cliches deny us an enriching understanding of the musical cultures in our own backyard.
- News & Politics, Worst of Chicago Dec 20, 2017
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John Kass is a real chumbolone
The Tribune's beer-can-chicken-obsessed columnist has managed to find ways to be ever more reactionary.
- Food & Drink, Restaurant Review Nov 22, 2017
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Steingold's isn't your bubbe's deli
But don't hold it against this North Center sandwich shop devoted to twists on the Jewish-American culinary canon.
- News & Politics, On Politics Nov 8, 2017
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Chicago’s Amazon bid is an extension of a Richard J. Daley-era rich-get-richer scheme
The Chicago 21 development plan is alive and well in Rahm and Rauner’s HQ2 offer to Jeff Bezos.
- Blogs, Bleader Sep 22, 2017
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Susana Mendoza might have just won her next election
The state comptroller is no one's "mini-me."
- Arts & Culture, Fall Preview Sep 13, 2017
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Where does the Chicago Architecture Biennial go next?
The current edition of the festival poses two possible directions its organizers can take.
- News & Politics, Sports Aug 15, 2017
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Hard hat, lunch pail: The myth of toughness in Chicago sports
How the fabled athletic monsters of Chicago’s Midway were created
- Arts & Culture, Lit Feature Jun 6, 2017
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What to check out at Printers Row 2017
Everything that’s free at the annual fest (except Kareem Abdul-Jabbar and Al Franken)
- Blogs, Bleader May 23, 2017
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Coverage of Trump is negative—for good reason
A new Harvard study looks at the media's take on President Trump's first 100 days.
- Blogs, Bleader May 18, 2017
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[UPDATED] Can the Reader survive a second helping of Michael Ferro?
The Chicago Reader may once again be controlled by Michael Ferro. Then what?
- Arts & Culture, Summer Guide May 17, 2017
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Fire hydrants offer the promise of a lake on every corner
But open them at your own risk.
- Blogs, Bleader Apr 18, 2017
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If journalists know how to do anything, it's salute our own
Contrary to Ben Hect's immortal assertions
- Blogs, Bleader Apr 10, 2017
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The Chicago Tribune likes Trump a lot more than the Los Angeles Times does
Tronc's two biggest newspapers take very different approaches to the president.
- Blogs, Bleader Apr 7, 2017
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Tracy Letts’s rebellion against the Jeff Awards is suspiciously woke
What motivated the Steppenwolf playwright to give the Jeffs the cold shoulder?
