The Groupon Super Bowl Ads: Anatomy of a PR Disaster
Groupon’s self- and audience-satirizing ads have upset a lot of people, even if their intent was charitable. What went wrong: the medium or the message?
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Snow-shovel Phobia (and Safety) after Snowmageddon
Snow shoveling is one of those guy-pride things, but it inevitably leads to snow shovel-phobia, especially if heart problems run in your family: the fear that clearing your car or walk will cause you to suffer one of the heart attacks that inevitably follow a big blizzard.
The Don: A Look at Former Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld
FROM JUNE 2001: Donald Rumsfeld mended an old family feud to join the Bush Administration as Secretary of Defense, quickly emerging as one of the most powerful figures in Washington. Still, this smart, aggressive, hugely ambitious Chicagoan (New Trier ’50) probably never dreamed that his career would end in the same office he had occupied 25 years ago. Maybe it won’t.
Super Bowl Dilemma: Taking Sides on Packers vs. Steelers vs. Bears
Whom should a Chicagoan root for in the Super Bowl? It’s not as simple as you think.
'The Complete Architecture of Adler and Sullivan,' by Richard Nickel and Aaron Siskind
WORTH THE WAIT: A Sisyphean book project finally sees the light of day
Gradients We Can Believe In
During the 2008 campaign season, a skinny young presidential candidate adopted a sophisticated campaign graphics-design scheme that impressed the design world—and catapulted him to victory. And now, Chicago mayoral campaigns are looking a lot like Barack’s…
That Other "Chicago Magazine"
We’re not the first publication to claim the title. A look at “Chicago Magazine,” circa 1857, which portrayed “the West AS IT IS.”
Lori Andrews on Facebook, Gene Patents, and Human Cloning
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Law Prof and Novelist Lori Andrews Untangles Today’s Strangest Biotech Cases
CLONE RANGER: Meet the woman who reigns as the nation’s foremost legal authority on the most contentious technological and bioethical issues of our time
Snowpocalypse Then: How the Blizzard of 1979 Cost the Election for Michael Bilandic
A perfect storm of weather, clout, and PR doomed the incumbent mayor in his primary battle against Jane Byrne.