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- Music, The Secret History of Chicago Music Apr 8, 2021
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Michael ‘Fuzzy’ deLisle is an unsung hero of the fertile 1970s Champaign-Urbana scene
He’s released just one single in his long career, but he’s played a staggering amount of great country rock and folk.
- Music, The Secret History of Chicago Music Sep 10, 2020
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Peter Berkow has spent five decades traversing at least that many genres
The Chicago native has been a producer and a professor, and moved from folk to funk to fusion to prog and back.
- Music, The Secret History of Chicago Music May 19, 2020
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Musical and literary polymath Thom Bishop has a second career as Junior Burke
For 50 years he’s been writing songs, lyrics, plays, movies, and more—and his new novel starts with James Dean shooting Ronald Reagan on live TV.
- Music, Music Feature Apr 2, 2020
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Pianist Charles Joseph Smith celebrates companionship and solitude in a new video
“Flourishing Cities of Undead” was shot late last year in the empty Fine Arts Building, with special guest star Angel Bat Dawid.
- Music, Music Feature Apr 4, 2019
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John Cage’s treasures are hiding in plain sight
The influential experimental composer’s largest archive lives in a library at Northwestern—and it goes a lot deeper than its famous Beatles lyric sheets.
- Music, The Secret History of Chicago Music Sep 25, 2018
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Spoils of War pioneered the fusion of experimental electronics and psychedelic rock
The late-60s band founded by unheralded composer Jim Cuomo only released one EP during its lifetime.
- Arts & Culture, Art Feature Apr 25, 2018
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The American dream, in frosting: the art of Yvette Mayorga
Do immigrants really find a better life in the U.S., or is it just a fantasia of prosperity full of barely concealed threats?
- Blogs, Bleader Jan 22, 2018
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O'Hare serial stowaway sneaks past TSA and flies to London, and other Chicago news
Also, the history behind the name of Kim and Kanye's new daughter, Chicago West.
- Blogs, Bleader Nov 13, 2017
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Report: Chicago-based Trump adviser Papadopoulos was a lot closer to the campaign than Trump admits, and other news
Also, Rauner is facing a primary challenge from the right.
- Blogs, Bleader Oct 19, 2017
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Biss, Kennedy, Pritzker support legalizing marijuana in Illinois, and other Chicago news
Also, Durbin confronts Jeff Sessions on his failure to solve Chicago's gun violence issues.
- Blogs, Bleader Jul 3, 2017
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Illinois House approves income tax hike, spending plan, and other Chicago news
Also, Trump has reportedly tapped 48-year-old John Lausch as the U.S. attorney for Chicago.
- Blogs, Bleader Jun 16, 2017
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Rauner calls ten-day special legislative session before the end of the fiscal year, and other Chicago news
Also, Cook County will stop prosecuting some traffic offenses due to lack of resources.
- Music, Music Feature Oct 26, 2016
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American Football: Accidental rock stars
This downstate band became heroes to the emo scene after breaking up in obscurity—and 17 years later, they’ve returned with a second album.
- Blogs, Bleader Mar 8, 2016
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Bill Clinton hits town to support Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign and other Chicago news
Also, snow on the ground in Logan Square for a movie shoot and Rahm's new inner circle.
- Blogs, Bleader Nov 12, 2015
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UI settles tweeting prof Steven Salaita case for cash, no job
The $875,000 settlement agreement with Professor Steven Salaita will end his lawsuits against the university—but will not provide him with a job.
- Columns & Opinion, On Culture Sep 25, 2015
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Does the University of Illinois really need another medical school?
Ousted chancellor Phyllis Wise leaves the U. of I. with multimillion-dollar legal bills and a $135 million commitment to a new public-private college of medicine.
- Columns & Opinion, On Culture Aug 12, 2014
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Did controversial tweets cost Steven Salaita his U. of I. professorship?
The AAUP steps into a #controversy sparked by an author and pro-Palestinian activist.
- Arts & Culture, Art Review Aug 5, 2014
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Gaming and art collide at VGA Gallery
Codirectors Jonathan Kinkley and Chaz Evans further the case for the artistic merit of video games.
- Music, The Secret History of Chicago Music Nov 14, 2013
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The Secret History of Chicago Music: Seeds of Doubt
These garage rockers were kings of the Chambana scene in the late 60s, but their only recordings have been lost.
- Blogs, Bleader May 10, 2012
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UIUC students try to create a better coastal city
A new architectural exhibition of student work at University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- News & Politics, Feature Dec 22, 2011
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Dr. Titus Chiu, the healer
'I have to say, love is the most powerful medicine there is'
- Blogs, Bleader Apr 17, 2007
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An alternative to Blago's bad tax plan
Blagojevich's bad tax plan and J. Fred Giertz's modestly proposed alternative.
