Every goddamn day: 04/30/25

    It's been a long time since we've veered into the truly trivial, and this seems a good moment.     Because really, you can...

"Conflict management" by Jerry Truong      "Chicago is the capital of the code of silence," says Craig B. Futte...

     I finished my morning work a little early Thursday, and thought I would spend the 15 minutes before lunch curled up with A Colorful...

        So now I've watched all five Republican presidential debates.      Ten hours—more or less—staring into the cesspool of the...

Jeff Magill       Early this year, Tom Chiarella wrote a fantastic profile of Jeff Magill for Chicago magazine. So when a boss suggest...

      I said it before , at the end of November, when the University of Chicago cancelled classes after what turned out to be an empty th...

         Yesterday's Letters to Santa column mentioned my attempt to play Santa to a needy child in 2011. I went back and looked a...