Every goddamn day: 05/11/25

Kitchen, by Liza Lou (Whitney Museum of American Art)                                   “Stay home as much as possible”              ...

   The Dow plunges 2,000 points. The scary new plague spreads. The president is still an idiot.    So why do I feel like grabbing a bamboo...

View from the terrace of the Cliff Dwellers Club.         Ho, for the club life! The green leather wing chairs, the well-stocked bars, ...

     When a joke goes flat, or a story is met with a shrug, the struggling comic, or flailing storyteller, will sometimes try to bring the ...

University of Chicago Press warehouse      I have an interest in the publishing industry and like to keep current, the way a denizen of...

World War I poster (Metropolitan Museum of Art)     Businesses gobble up each other every day.      But only rarely do charities, and th...

Richard Weiner, left, and wife Karen run a bird sanctuary in Northbrook. They also board birds.       Humility can itself be a kind of ...