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“Where’s mine?” was Mike Royko’s alternative motto for the fair city of Chicago. Now it’s a podcast about former Chicagoans talking about the town, hosted by Brandon Wetherbee. I did the artwork. More info here.  I wrote about the lousy state of Chicago-based TV shows for the Reader this week. Saturday afternoon I was among a galleryContinue reading “Ubi Est Mea?”

I stayed on the Cottage Grove bus an extra stop and got off at 57th Street. Steering clear of chunks of ice on the sidewalk, I tried all the doors nearest the street and found them all locked. I went all the way around to the side facing Washington Park and found a door open.Continue reading “Museum Hours”

A few months ago a copy of The Spectacle of Skill by the late Robert Hughes showed up on my doorstep. It was delivered at the behest of Bookslut, the literary site for which I’d be reviewing it. A month or so later, after finishing the nearly-700-page tome and sending off my review, it occurred to meContinue reading “2 Hughes Reviews”