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Blogs, Bleader Jan 9, 2017
Things to do in Chicago: Bang Bang Pie dinner, a reflection on Obama, and more

Gender in the Old-Time Saloon, Write Club, and more happenings from January 9-12
- By Brianna Wellen
- Tags: Arts, Do This, Bill Savage, Comix Revolution, Hopewell Brewery, Bang Bang Pie, MCA Live, Museum of Contemporary Art, Write Club, Hideout, Activism, Women & Children First, Don't Kid Yourself, Hungry Brain, Big Thief, Schubas, Off the Wall, Studio Oh!, David Bowie Tribute, Untitled, Michelle L'Amour

Arts & Culture, Fall Preview Sep 3, 2016
Fall's best lit-related events

The Chicago Humanities Fest, Algren: A Life, and more.
- By Aimee Levitt
- Tags: Fall Preview, Colson Whitehead, The Underground Railroad, Logan Center for the Arts, Jonathan Safran Foer, Music Box Theatre, Ann Patchett, Nerdette Podcast, First Evangelical Free Church, Abbi Jacobson, Samantha Irby, Women and Children First, Senn High School, Chicago Humanities Fest, Zadie Smith, DuSable Museum of African American History, Out of the Wreck I Rise: A Literary Companion to Recovery, Neil Steinberg, Sara Bader, Poetry Foundation, The Virginity of Famous Men, Christine Sneed, Gina Frangello, Mary Wisniewski, Bill Savage, Algren: A Life, Sweet Sugar, Sultry Spice, Malika Ameen, Read It & Eat, NaNoWriMo, Volumes Bookcafe

Best of Chicago, Reasons to love Chicago Jun 23, 2016
Critics' Picks
The Grid helps Chicago navigate the city’s streets—and its history

Edward Brennan’s system of street naming and numbering makes the city’s present and past comprehensible.
- By Bill Savage
- Tags: Reasons to love Chicago, The Grid, Edward Brennan, Bridgeport, Daniel Burnham, street naming, street numbering, Halsted, LaSalle, Southport, Glenwood, Sheridan Road, Loomis, Noble, Bill Savage, Critics' Picks

Blogs, Bleader Jun 6, 2016
Books we can’t wait to read: The back half of 2016 edition

There's plenty to look forward to in the rest of 2016.
- By Aimee Levitt and Tal Rosenberg
- Tags: Arts, Books, Books we can't wait to read 2016, Chuck Klosterman, Stephen King, Alison Flowers, Mary Roach, Yaa Gyasi, Jessica Valenti, Walter Mosley, Tig Notaro, Charles Foster, Michael Harvey, Jesse Ball, Ben Winters, Dave Hoekstra, Paul Natkin, Joy Williams, Gay Talese, Jennifer Close, Blake Crouch, Megan Abbott, J.K. Rowling, John Tiffany, Jack Thorne, Jeffrey Toobin, Jesmyn Ward, Greg Tate, Amy Schumer, Chandra Manning, Chuck Eddy, Neil Steinberg, Sara Bader, Amor Towles, Jonathan Safran Foer, László Krasznahorkai, Lynne Cox, David Thomson, Colson Whitehead, Patrick Phillips, Amitav Ghosh, Bill Dahl, James Gleick, Roger Ebert, Chaz Ebert, Gary Younge, Edward Sorel, Nell Zink, Simon Reynolds, Brooke Borel, R.J. Nelson, Ha Jin, Deirdre Bair, Abbi Jacobson, Jeanette Hurt, Allie Brosh, Marc Myers, Javier Marías, Elena Ferrante, George Ade, Bill Savage, Philip Levine, Steven Salaita, Zadie Smith, Barbara Epler, J.C. Gabel, Larry Bennett, Roberta Garner, Euan Hague

Blogs, Bleader Jan 13, 2015
When you call someone a jagoff, what exactly are you trying to say?

A thoughtful debate about jagoffs.
- By Michael Miner
- Tags: Media, News, WBEZ, WFMT, Andrew Patner, Charlie Hebdo, New York Times, Dean Baquet, jagoff, jackoff, Chicago Bears, Virginia McCaskey, George McCaskey, Norman Mailer, "The Naked and the Dead, " fuggin, Pittsburgh, Bill Savage, Lumpen magazine, Justin Kaufmann, Goli Sheikholeslami, Chicago Public Media, Dictionary of American Regional English, Dick Chaney, Senator Patrick Leahy

Blogs, Bleader Dec 8, 2014
Devil in the White City vs. Chicago: City on the Make: Greatest Ever Chicago Book Tournament round one

Northwestern professor Bill Savage gives hell to Devil in the White City.
- By Bill Savage
- Tags: Greatest Chicago Book, Books, Arts, greatest ever chicago book, bill savage, northwestern, devil in the white city, Chicago: city on the make, nelson algren, erik larson, h.h. holmes

Blogs, Bleader Nov 19, 2014
The Greatest Ever Chicago Book Tournament

Between now and April, the Reader and its readers will be choosing the greatest book ever written about Chicago.
- By Aimee Levitt
- Tags: Greatest Chicago Book, Books, Things I Love, Arts, book tournament, Chicago books, greatest Chicago book, Jake Austen, Andrea Battleground, Jerome Ludwig, Wendy McClure, Bill Savage, Peggy Shinner, Marvin Tate, Lance Williams, The Jungle, Twenty Years at Hull-House, Native Son, The Warmth of Other Suns, Devil in the White City, Chicago: City on the Make, Boss, I May Be Wrong But I Doubt It, The Time Traveler's Wife, Divergent, Building Stories, Working, The Adventures of Augie March, I Sailed With Magellan, Book of My Lives, House on Mango Street

Blogs, Bleader Sep 19, 2014
'Think of the Children' tells the history of censorship in Chicago through stories and songs

And the censors did not always act in the interest of protecting the children.
- By Aimee Levitt
- Tags: Books, Arts, Film, Music, History, Think of the Children, censorship, Chicago Film Board, Paul Durica, Sarah Crawford, Jusin Amolsch, Amie Sell, Morphtet, Bill Savage, Lenny Bruce, Gate of Horn

Arts & Culture, Lit Feature May 6, 2014
Recommended
Our guide to Let's Get Working, a tribute to Studs Terkel

The U. of C. pays tribute to Studs Terkel with a weekend-long festival of readings, screenings, and appearances by Ira Glass and other notables.
- By Taylor Tolbert
- Tags: Lit Sidebar, Studs Terkel, Let's Get Working, University of Chicago, Ira Glass, Rick Kogan, Andre Schiffrin, WFMT, StoryCorps, Old Town School of Folk Music, Mark Dvorak, It's a Living, Book and Information Fair, South Side Weekly, Street-Level Youth Media, Voice of Witness, Media Burn Archive, Best of Studs 1946-2008, Nelson Algren, Bill Veeck, Soapbox Debates, Washington Park, Bughouse Square, Craft Talk, Dave Hoekstra, Mary Schmich, Anthology of Chicago, 1,001 Chicago Afternoons, Reinventing the Radio: An Evening with Ira Glass, This American Life, Pocket Guide to Hell, Bill Savage, Thomas Dyja, Justin Amolsch, Hideout, Univ. of Chicago Logan Center for the Arts, Recommended

Arts & Culture, Feature Oct 2, 2013
The migration of the hipster

A Chicago history, 1898-present
- By Aimee Levitt
- Tags: Feature, hipsters, Flat Iron Building, Bridgeport, neighborhoods, New York Times, next Seattle, Richard Lloyd, Jeff Huebner, history, Real World, Ed Marszewski, Lumpen Times, Liz Phair, Urge Overkill, Veruca Salt, Smashing Pumpkins, Tom Handley, Joe Judd, Shane Bugbee, Elliot Dicks, gentrification, Clem Jaskot Jr., Phyllis' Musical Inn, bars, Gold Star Bar, Nelson Algren, Wicker Park, HotHouse, Double Door, Pontiac, Subterranean, Flat Iron Building, Myopic Books, Quimby's Bookstore, Autonomous Zone Infoshop, Buys Bee, Earwax Cafe, Urbus Orbis, commercialization, bohemia, brohemia, Sarah Crawford, Fine Arts Building, artists' colonies, coffeehouses, nightclubs, The Little Room, South Loop, artists, tea, Auditorium Hotel, Ralph Clarkson, Henry Blake Fuller, George Ade, Hamlin Garland, Lorado Taft, Jane Addams, Bertha Palmer, Jackson Park, Hyde Park, Midway Studios, Floyd Dell, Evening Post, Evening Post's Friday Literary Review, Paul Durica, Margery Currey, salons, Sherwood Anderson, Edgar Lee Masters, Carl Sandburg, Ben Hecht, Margaret Anderson, The Little Review, Richard Lloyd, Chicago winters, Towertown, Bauhaus, Bauhaus School, River North, Maxwell Bodenheim, them restaurants, Gold Coast House of Correction, Big John's Coal Scuttle, Jake Loeb, Thomas Dyja, Tree Studios, Prohibition, tearooms, Green Mask, Ballyhoo Cafe, drag shows, Dil Pickle Club, Washington Square Park, Newberry Library, Bughouse Square, Jack Jones, Tooker Place, Mae West, Ben Reitman, Chicago Tribune, alcohol, Charles Collins, Mitchell Dawson, Harriet Monroe, Clarence Darrow, Emma Goldman, Theodore Dreiser, Ring Lardner, Edgar Lee Masters, Joseph Weil, Bill Haywood, Jack Johnson, Chicago Literary Times, Michigan Avenue Bridge, douchebags, yuppies, bros, Alfreda Gordon, Chicago Sunday Times, development, beatniks, hippies, New Yorker, Emily Hahn, Slim Brundage, College of Complexes, Piper's Alley, Lincoln Restaurant, Maury's, Cholly Wendorf, Bill Smith, Steve Goodman, John Prine, Bonnie Koloc, Hairy Who, Will Leonard, University of Chicago, Old Town School of Folk Music, Bill Savage, Northwestern University, Frank Ryan, Norman Mailer, Dee Paira, Gavin Morrison, Rainbo Club, Logan Square, Jason Hammel, Logan Beach, Lula Cafe, Amalea Tshilds, Joe Bryl, Longman & Eagle, Reno, Bang Bang Pie, Parsons Chicken & Fish, Cozy Corner, Cole's Bar, Helen's, Two-Way Lounge, Whirlaway Lounge, The Whistler, Scofflaw, Weegee's Lounge, Logan Square Farmers Market, Dill Pickle Co-Op, Cafe Mustache, New Wave Coffee, Abraham Conlon, Adrienne Lo, Matthias Merges, Jared Wentworth, Paul McGee, Maria Jaimes, Fireside Bowl, The Mutiny, John McDermott, Logan Square Neighborhood Association, Latinos, buying property, Bridgeport, Pilsen, Jason Vincent, Bruce Finkelman, Thalia Hall, Modern Cooperative, furniture stores, Nightwood, Co-Prosperity Sphere, public transportation, mass transit, Version Fest, Mash-Tun Festival

Blogs, Bleader Aug 9, 2013
Assembling a picture of Chicago, neighborhood by neighborhood

Two local bloggers have organized a reading celebrating Chicago's neighborhoods.
- By Aimee Levitt
- Tags: Books, Arts, Neighborhoods, Chi Lit: Tales of the Neighborhoods, Rachel Hyman, Paul Dailing, Anthology of Chicago, 1001 Chicago Afternoons, Ben Hecht, 1001 Afternoons in Chicago, Chicago Daily News, Cole's Bar, Nelson Algren, Bill Savage, Paul Dunica, Shannon Cason, Molly Meacham, Robert Loerzel, Streeterville, Bucktown

Arts & Culture, Book Review May 30, 2013
Recommended
Fin de siecle Chicago for dummies

A new edition of Chicago by Day and Night, with annotations by Paul Durica and Bill Savage, is a guidebook to both the city and the era.
- By Jerome Ludwig
- Tags: Book Review, Chicago by Day and Night: The Pleasure Seeker's Guide to the Paris of America, World's Columbian Exposition of 1893, Paul Durica, Pocket Guide to Hell Tours, Northwestern, Bill Savage, Chicago by Day and Night, The City's Moral Side, Recommended

Blogs, Bleader May 29, 2013
More prose gems from Chicago by Day and Night

Some boostery purple prose from the guidebook to the 1893 World's Fair
- By Jerome Ludwig
- Tags: Books, Arts, Midwestern Defensiveness, Chicago by Day and Night, Northwestern University Press, Bill Savage, Paul Durica, Newberry Library, Printers Row Lit Fest, Rachel Shteir

Blogs, Bleader Apr 23, 2013
Rachel Shteir—cat's-paw of New York's cunning plot to make the world despise us?

More thoughts on the DePaul professor and her essay on Chicago
- By Michael Miner
- Tags: Media, News, Rachel Shteir, Chicago Reader, New York Times Book Review, Chicago, New York, Neil Steinberg, Bill Savage, Carol Felsenthal

Blogs, Bleader Mar 17, 2013
Reader's Agenda Sun 3/17: Story Week, the First Ward Ball, and Dublin on Division

What's on the Reader's Agenda for Sunday, March 17, 2013
- By Katie Kather
- Tags: Do This, Arts, Columbia College Chicago, Story Week, 2nd Story, Chicago Poetry Bordello, the Hideout, First Ward Ball, Dublin on Division, leprachauns, Bill Savage

Blogs, Bleader Feb 25, 2013
Reader's Agenda Mon 2/25: Polar Bear Awareness Week, Michael Hainey, and Amos Guiora

What's on the Reader's Agenda for Monday, February 25, 2013
- By Janey Lee
- Tags: Do This, Arts, Polar Bear Awareness Week, Lincoln Park Zoo, lectures, endangered species, Michael Hainey, GQ, Harold Washington Library Center, Bill Savage, Northwestern University, After Visiting Friends: A Son's Story, Chicago Sun-Times, Bob Hainey, Amos Guiora, University of Utah, targeted killing, law, public policy, international law, University of Chicago, International House

Blogs, Bleader Oct 20, 2012
The Reader's Agenda: Sat 10/20

What's on the Agenda for Saturday, October 20, 2012
- By Drew Hunt
- Tags: Do This, Curious George Day, Open Books, River North, Haymarket Pub & Brewery, Drinking and Writing Festival, the Beats, Jack Kerouac, Allen Ginsberg, Bill Savage, Congress Theater, Logan Square, The XX, Coexist, John Talbot, 2:54

News & Politics, Feature Aug 25, 2011
Back to School

Seven past and present Chicagoans revisit their wonder years
- By Mara Shalhoup
- Tags: Feature, Dan Savage, Bill Savage, Stephanie Izard, Karen Lews, Tim Kinsella, Tonika G. Johnson, Bill Hillman, high school, Chicago Public Schools, it gets better, Stranger, Northwestern, Girl & the Goat, Windy City Story Slam, Media-N-Motion, Chicago Teachers Union, Cap'n Jazz, Owls, The Karaoke Singer’s Guide to Self-Defense, Joan of Arc, Make Believe

News & Politics, Feature Aug 25, 2011
Back to school with Bill Savage, class of '80

"A school that graded everything on a scale of 0-99, with no possibility of scoring 100—because, we were told, only God was perfect"
- By Bill Savage
- Tags: Feature, Bill Savage, Northwestern University, bartender, St. Ignatius College Prep, Taylor Street, ABLA, the projects, high school, catholic school, detention, jesuit

Blogs, Bleader Aug 8, 2011
Chicago Humanities Festival announces this year's lineup of presenters

The 22nd annual Chicago Humanities Festival. Theme: Technology
- By Jerome Ludwig
- Tags: Science, Lit & Lectures, Books, Chicago Humanities Festival, technology, Laurie Anderson, Adrian Belew, Common, Umberto Eco, Jonathan Franzen, Jeanne Gang, Amitav Ghosh, William Gibson, Lydia Millet, Bill Savage, Dan Sinker, Stephen Sondheim

Arts & Culture, Calendar Jul 14, 2011
The Reader Agenda

GBV, Tour de Fat, a book signing, and beer, beer, beer
- By Mara Shalhoup
- Tags: Special Event, Pitchfork Festival, Guided by Voices, Kayaking, Logan Square Kitchen, Tour de Fat, Green City Market, Bill Savage, Michael Harvey, Nicole Hollander, En Route, Chicago Shakespeare Theater, Center on Halsted, Silver Fork, Lillstreet Art Center, Two Brothers Brewing, Prairie Fire, Half Acre Brewery

Blogs, Bleader Jan 12, 2011
Savage Love Live

Dan Savage and Bill Savage at the Chicago Humanities Festival
- By Jerome Ludwig
- Tags: Lit & Lectures, Books, Chicago Humanities Festival, Savage Love, Dan Savage, Bill Savage

Blogs, Bleader Dec 10, 2010
Keep the Mirage Real!

Andrew Sullivan blog gets the story of Chicago's Mirage all wrong.
- By Michael Miner
- Tags: Media, News Bites, Andrew Sullivan, The Mirage, Bill Savage, Zay Smith, Pam Zekman, Brehon Pub, Better Government Association

Blogs, Bleader Sep 20, 2010
2010 Chicago Humanities Festival Tix Go on Sale Today
- By Jerome Ludwig
- Tags: Lit & Lectures, Books, Chicago Humanities Festival, Savage Love, Savage Lovecast, Dan Savage, Bill Savage, Sam Shepard, Chicago Tribune Literary Prize, Laura Kipnis, How to Become a Scandal: Adventures in Bad Behavior, Alpana Singh, Mindy Segal, Paul Kahan

Blogs, Bleader Jun 9, 2010
This Week's Food and Drink Events

Street parties, beer festivals, a foie gras celebration, and more.
- By Sam Worley
- Tags: Food Chain, Food & Drink, Taste of Bryn Mawr, Ribfest Chicago, North Center, Cat Cora, Friends' Health Connection, Downtown Farmstand, Cat Cora's Classics with a Twist, Drinking and Writing Brewery, Drinking and Writing Festival, Mike Royko, Northwestern University, Bill Savage, Denese Neu, David Royko, Sean Parnell, Chicago Bar Project, Hopleaf, Two Drink Minimum Writing Contest, Two Brothers Brewing Company, Hop Juice, double IPA, For the Love of Hops, Printers Row Lit Fest, Good Eating Stage, Sweetness, Sarah Levy, Kelly Rudnicki, The Food Allergy Mama's Baking Book, Didier Durand, foie gras, foie gras ban, A Foie Gras Celebration, Cyranot's Bistrot & Wine Bar, Wellesley College, Robert Paarlberg, Food Politics: What Everyone Needs to Know, The Global Politics of Food, The Chicago Council on Global Affairs, the Chicago Club, Veggie Bingo, the Hideout, community gardens, Death's Door Spirits, New Leaf Natural Grocery, Irv and Shelly's Fresh Picks, Josh Adams, June, June at North Pond, North Pond, Bruce Sherman

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