AltWeeklies Wire
The Preemptive Pushnew
Illinois Democrats have muscled a Green Party candidate off the ballot.
Chicago Reader |
Ben Joravsky |
09-18-2006 |
Politics
Tags: 2006elect
Atlantis Ho!new
David Hatcher Childress has traveled all over the globe in search of lost cities, but Kempton, Illinois, is where he has chosen to build his empire of the improbable.
Chicago Reader |
Mike Sula |
09-11-2006 |
Culture
Tags: lifestyles
The Politics of Braidsnew
Braiders are now required to spend thousands of dollars on beauty school, where they must learn to cut, dye, and perm -- services they never wanted to provide. Instead they're going underground.
Chicago Reader |
Tasneem Paghdiwala |
09-05-2006 |
Culture
Tags: lifestyles
The Blair Witch-y Projectnew
Industrial-disco refugee Chris Connelly heads for the woods with Tim Kinsella.
Chicago Reader |
Bob Mehr |
09-05-2006 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Chris Connelly
Make 'Em Squirmnew
For Fred Armisen, the comedy is in the discomfort.
Chicago Reader |
Jessica Hopper |
08-29-2006 |
Performance
Tags: performance
Dancing With the Dictator's Daughternew
Jerry Weller is one of the most powerful men in Congress when it comes to Latin America, and his wife is the most powerful woman in Guatemala's controversial FRG party -- does he have a conflict of interest?
Chicago Reader |
Frank Smyth |
08-29-2006 |
Politics
A Music Box of His Ownnew
Organist Mark Noller spent $50,000 converting his garage into a replica of his weekend workplace.
Chicago Reader |
Andrew Schroedter |
08-21-2006 |
Culture
Tags: lifestyles
His God Doesn't Hate Fagsnew
Andrew Marin wants to build a bridge between his fundamentalist Christian peers and his friends in the gay community -- oddly enough, some of them want to cross it.
Chicago Reader |
Kate Hawley |
08-21-2006 |
Religion
Tags: religion
Big Box Bucksnew
How much does Wal-Mart spend to avoid paying its workers more?
Chicago Reader |
Mischa Gaus |
08-14-2006 |
Business & Labor
Tags: business & labor
The Kindest Cutnew
Richard Berger used his engineering background to develop an ingenious improvement in joint replacement.
Chicago Reader |
Burt Michaels |
08-07-2006 |
Science
Tags: Health & Science
Wanna See Something Really Weird?new
One of the country's largest collections of freak-show oddities is housed in an unassuming town home in Chicago's western suburbs.
Chicago Reader |
Susannah J. Felts |
07-31-2006 |
Culture
Tags: lifestyles
Denying Our Own Eyesnew
Sportswriters knew what steroids were doing to baseball long before we were willing to admit it.
Chicago Reader |
Ted Cox |
07-24-2006 |
Sports
Tags: sports & fitness
Doe in the Headlightsnew
By trying so hard to keep his name out of the police torture report, Lawrence Hyman has made sure it's a name we'll always associate with police torture.
Chicago Reader |
John Conroy |
07-24-2006 |
Crime & Justice
Tags: crime & justice
The Silent Mastermindnew
Jack Fuller was the "architect" of the Tribune Company's disastrous acquisition of Times Mirror, but he won't be talking about it to the Trib.
Chicago Reader |
Michael Miner |
07-10-2006 |
Media
Tags: media
Overeating for Fun and Profitnew
One day culinary student Pat Bertoletti hopes to run his own restaurant -- but he may never be as famous for his cooking as he is for stuffing his face.
Chicago Reader |
Kabir Hamid |
06-30-2006 |
Food+Drink
