Every goddamn day: 04/30/25

     You find out about new products ... where?      Well the newspaper, for us fuddy-duddies. Those big tech review round-ups in the Times ...

If this cute puppy can call Arlington Heights home, so can the Chicago Bears.      Last week Ald. Harry Osterman said he wants the city to ...

     I volunteered for this one. Working on a book about Chicago history, of course I noticed the 150th anniversary of the Great Chicago Fir...

        There is something decidedly Jewish about Caren Jeskey. I mean that as a compliment. I shouldn't be surprised that she gets that...

Theodore Thomas in 1898   Alfred Cox photo/Rosenthal Archives of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra Association      Here’s a joke that Chicago ...

     I'm no fan of cinder blocks, not on an aesthetic level. They're big, crude, grey. Nor on a practical level. Rough and heavy, to...

Barbara Kruger installation, Art Institute of Chicago      Facebook went bye-bye Monday afternoon. The most surprising thing is what I felt ...