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Music, Gossip Wolf Sep 11, 2018
Honoring Englewood’s musical history with a cast of hundreds

Plus: Devin Shaffer outdoes her own dreamy folk on Yarrow’s latest, and throwback garage-pop act Cut Worms celebrates a cassette release of its debut full-length.
- By J.R. Nelson and Leor Galil
- Tags: Gossip Wolf, Quantum Englewood, Ernest Dawkins, Rahul Sharma, Old Town School of Folk Music, Live the Spirit Residency, Music Moves Chicago, Joyce Foundation, Lindblom Academy, Ben LaMar Gay, Maggie Brown, Funkadesi, AACM, Live the Spirit Jazz Ensemble, Fernando Jones’s Blues Kids, Soul Children Gospel Choir, Bucket Boys, Devin Shaffer, Yarrow, Cluster, Manic Static, Cut Worms, Max Clarke, Hollow Ground, At Home, Jagjaguwar, Dumpster Tapes, Schubas

Blogs, Bleader Nov 12, 2015
Mayor Rahm's principal merit pay award goes to his biggest school critic

Troy LaRaviere, one of the mayor's most outspoken school critics, won three straight mayoral merit pay awards.
- By Ben Joravsky
- Tags: Education, Politics, Troy LaRaviere, Rahm Emanuel, Mayor Emanuel, Elizabeth Heurtefeu, Blaine elementary, LaSalle elementary, Chicago Public Schools, merit pay, Bruce Rauner, Penny Pritzker, MacArthur Foundation, Joyce Foundation, Chicago Forward, Karen Lewis, Catalyst

Columns & Opinion, On Culture May 16, 2013
Do we really need the Great Chicago Fire Festival?

The city wants a festival that'll enhance its global image; Redmoon is planning an exorcism.
- By Deanna Isaacs
- Tags: On Culture, Great Chicago Fire Festival, Michelle Boone, Jim Lasko, Lois Weisberg, Cultural Olympiad, Joyce Foundation, rive parade, spectacle, neighborhoods effigies, Chicago Cultural Plan, CPS, Frank Maugeri, Chicago Public Schools, arts education, Las Fallas, Valencia, DCASE, City Council, Ellen Barry, Friends of Wolf Point, Department of Cultural Affairs and Special Events, Redmoon, Chicago Sun-Times, Chicago Reader, casino, tax increment financing, TIFs, Hines Interests, Kennedy Family, Chicago River, Ray LaHood, U.S. Department of Transportation, Rahm Emanuel, federal loans, Chicago Riverwalk, Gregg Pupecki, Wendella, Wendella Sightseeing Company, development, Jeanne Gang, EPA, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, River Point, Wolf Point

Blogs, Bleader Apr 15, 2011
CNC Is About to Show Us a New Home Page

Chicago News Cooperative is about to show us a new website
- By Michael Miner
- Tags: Media, News Bites, Chicago News Cooperative, Jim O'Shea, David Greising, Kristen McQueary, Jim Kirk, WBEZ, SouthtownStar, Joyce Foundation

News & Politics, Politics Jul 8, 2010
Under the Gun

Aldermen rush through a gun-control law they've barely read to replace a gun-control law nobody seems to have enforced. Who really benefits? Mayor Daley.
- By Mick Dumke
- Tags: Politics, Supreme Court, Chicago gun ban, Mayor Daley, Responsible Gun Ownership, City Council, Jody Weis, Chicago homicides, assault weapons, weapons seizures, Robert Fioretti, Anthony Beale, Freddrenna Lyle, Purpose Over Pain, Pamela Montgomery-Bosley, Joyce Foundation, gun control, Richard Pearson, Illinois State Rifle Association, Father Michael Pfleger, Ron Huberman, John Fritchey, La Shawn Ford, Gerald Vernon, Illinois Carry, Samuel Alito, McDonald v. City of Chicago, Second Amendment, Mara Georges, Ed Burke, Willie Cochran, Richard Mell, Ray Suarez, Brian Doherty, Virginia Rugai, Deborah Graham, Emma Mitts, Tom Allen

Blogs, Bleader Apr 13, 2010
David Remnick on The Bridge: The Life and Rise of Barack Obama

New Yorker editor David Remnick talks about The Bridge: The Life and Rise of Barack Obama
- By Jerome Ludwig
- Tags: Lit & Lectures, Books, New Yorker, David Remnick, Chicago Tribune, Elizabeth Taylor, The Bridge, Barack Obama, Knopf, Chicago Reader, Hank De Zutter, Bobby Rush, Edward McClelland, Ted Kleine, Michelle Obama, Abner Mikva, Dan Shomon, Audacity of Hope, Joyce Foundation

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Honoring Englewood’s musical history with a cast of hundreds

Plus: Devin Shaffer outdoes her own dreamy folk on Yarrow’s latest, and throwback garage-pop act Cut Worms celebrates a cassette release of its debut full-length.

Mayor Rahm's principal merit pay award goes to his biggest school critic

Troy LaRaviere, one of the mayor's most outspoken school critics, won three straight mayoral merit pay awards.

Do we really need the Great Chicago Fire Festival?

The city wants a festival that'll enhance its global image; Redmoon is planning an exorcism.

CNC Is About to Show Us a New Home Page

Chicago News Cooperative is about to show us a new website

Under the Gun

Aldermen rush through a gun-control law they've barely read to replace a gun-control law nobody seems to have enforced. Who really benefits? Mayor Daley.

David Remnick on The Bridge: The Life and Rise of Barack Obama

New Yorker editor David Remnick talks about The Bridge: The Life and Rise of Barack Obama

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Honoring Englewood’s musical history with a cast of hundreds

Plus: Devin Shaffer outdoes her own dreamy folk on Yarrow’s latest, and throwback garage-pop act Cut Worms celebrates a cassette release of its debut full-length.

Mayor Rahm's principal merit pay award goes to his biggest school critic

Troy LaRaviere, one of the mayor's most outspoken school critics, won three straight mayoral merit pay awards.

Do we really need the Great Chicago Fire Festival?

The city wants a festival that'll enhance its global image; Redmoon is planning an exorcism.

CNC Is About to Show Us a New Home Page

Chicago News Cooperative is about to show us a new website

Under the Gun

Aldermen rush through a gun-control law they've barely read to replace a gun-control law nobody seems to have enforced. Who really benefits? Mayor Daley.

David Remnick on The Bridge: The Life and Rise of Barack Obama

New Yorker editor David Remnick talks about The Bridge: The Life and Rise of Barack Obama

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