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- News & Politics, Feature Oct 13, 2011
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The Reader's 40th Anniversary Issue
Celebrating four decades of muckraking and mischief
- Columns & Opinion, On Media Oct 13, 2011
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You can revisit the past, but you can't go home again
Reflecting on the Reader's 40-year history . . . and my own
- News & Politics, Feature Oct 13, 2011
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Nancy Banks, managing editor and writer, 1971-1977, on the Reader's early days
'Rodney Wanker didn't exist. I'd been replaced by a rude-sounding pseudonym.'
- News & Politics, Feature Oct 13, 2011
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'The conscience of Chicago journalism'
Michael Miner, the Reader's rock, has been in these pages since day one
- News & Politics, Feature Oct 13, 2011
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Mark Homstad, theater critic in the 70s, on the Reader's early days
'I didn't intend to create a publicity-seeking controversy, though it may have helped provide an initial marker of the paper's critical independence'
- News & Politics, Feature Oct 13, 2011
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Dave Jones, 'production czar,' 1976-2006, on the Reader's early days
'It was easy to feel at home. So I stayed for 30 years.'
- News & Politics, Feature Oct 13, 2011
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Robert McCamant, co-owner, 1971-2007, on the Reader's early days
'Magazine-style design on newsprint was a signal that we were something new—neither fish nor fowl'
- News & Politics, Feature Oct 13, 2011
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Bob Roth, co-owner, 1971-2007, on the Reader's early days
'All but one of our investors were unemployed friends from college'
- News & Politics, Feature Oct 13, 2011
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Mary Jo Madden, general manager, 1977-now, on the Reader's early days
'If it sounds like I had the worst job one could get at the Reader, you weren't around in 1977'
- News & Politics, Feature Oct 13, 2011
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Tom Rehwaldt, co-owner, 1971-2007, on the Reader's early days
'He scoffed and assured me that my paper was nothing like the Village Voice. He was right.'
- News & Politics, Feature Oct 13, 2011
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Tom Yoder, co-owner, 1973-2007, on the Reader's early days
'The office was the dining room of the apartment where most of us lived'
- Film, Movie Feature Oct 13, 2011
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Jonathan Rosenbaum ruminates on his 1998 'List-o-Mania'
The article that helped implement my long-standing desire to deconstruct the movie industry's received wisdom
- Music, Music Feature Oct 13, 2011
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Remembering my 1973 introduction to Von Freeman
By coincidence or luck, I published the very first interview with the south-side saxophonist
- Arts & Culture, Performing Arts Feature Oct 13, 2011
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Reminiscence from a reviled theater critic
'If there are still some bad feelings out there after all these years then, damn, you've got to learn to let go'
- News & Politics, Feature Oct 13, 2011
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Revisiting John Conroy's journalistic odyssey into police torture
Twenty-one years ago, 'House of Screams' launched a decade of stories that ended with the imprisonment of police lieutenant Jon Burge
- Arts & Culture, Art Feature Oct 13, 2011
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Chris Ware reflects on his most nerve-racking Reader cartoon
'I'd assumed by its pretension and ridiculous complexity that it would be rejected'
- News & Politics, The Straight Dope Oct 13, 2011
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The Straight Dope examines the Reader's 40 years
In the age of the Internet this surprises no one, but the genius of the Reader was to show that you could publish a quality newspaper that you gave away
- Music, Music Column Oct 13, 2011
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What's the newspaper equivalent of crate digging?
Rummaging the archive of Reader music criticism
- News & Politics, Chicago Reader at Forty Oct 13, 2011
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2010
The year in Chicago history via the pages of the Reader
- Music, Music Sidebar Oct 13, 2011
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America's real artists are hiding out at Betty Lou's
The 1973 article that 'discovered' jazz master Von Freeman
- News & Politics, Chicago Reader at Forty Aug 4, 2011
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2000
The year in Chicago history via the pages of the Reader
- News & Politics, Chicago Reader at Forty Jul 28, 2011
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1999
The year in Chicago history via the pages of the Reader
- News & Politics, Chicago Reader at Forty Jul 14, 2011
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1997
The year in Chicago history via the pages of the Reader
- News & Politics, Chicago Reader at Forty Jul 7, 2011
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1996
The year in Chicago history via the pages of the Reader
- News & Politics, Chicago Reader at Forty Jun 30, 2011
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1995
The year in Chicago history via the pages of the Reader