Every goddamn day: 06/23/25

     Writers brandish what most people hide. The secret shame. The festering hurt. What you won't tell your spouse we tell the world. Lo...

      "Shouldn't it be, ' She's a girl'?" I said, pointing to a package of paper plates announcing, "It'...

      I spent some time Wednesday dubbing old videos onto my Google Drive — it was fun to watch family scenes I hadn't looked at in ... ...

Ken Taylor      As a student of both recovery and hot dogs — a proud graduate of both the Chapman Center, when it was in Highland Park Hospi...

      The years when we hit every opera in the Lyric season are gone and not coming back. Ditto for ticking off each new play at the Goodma...

     Chicago owes a lot to New York. We don't like to admit it, but it's true. This place was pretty much started by New York land s...

      This weekend marks the 100th anniversary of the founding of The New Yorker. I never had a story published there, but in 1993 editor D...