Every goddamn day: 04/30/25

     Politics has become such a free fire zone, the tendency is to blast away at everything, big or small, without any sense of balance...

     Today is Hugh Hefner's 90th birthday. The Playboy founder has long been in California, but was born and raised in Chicago, start...

Gay Talese       My use of the word "incredible" to describe Gay Talese's book "The Voyeur's Motel" in this ...

     Hmm.      Now Tuesday was a really good day. Got to work with a pocket full of nothing, true, but came up with a column about th...

     Everyone should have a lousy job in the food industry. At least once: good for the soul. I had two. My very first job — well, not c...

     It looks like my 20-year-old is going to spend the summer interning in Washington, D.C.. Concerned parent that I am, on Sunday nig...

Untitled, silkscreen by Barbara Kruger (1989, The Broad collection).      I've seen some strange weather in Chicago — a day when it ...