That sincere, in-the-same-room-with-you voice has proved to be seductive for the listeners of Ira Glass. This American Life, his true-stories show distributed by Public Radio International, recently celebrated its tenth anniversary. Next up are a screenplay and a TV series. Even with a move to New York coming soon, Glass took time out to talk about life, love, work, and how a bad relationship led to a creative breakthrough.
Once, Ed Schwartz reigned as the king of Chicago late-night radio, pioneering a show based on intimacy and helping others. But changing tastes and ill health brought him to the point at which he himself needed help
Photo: Marion Ettlinger Elizabeth Kostova As a child, Elizabeth Kostova reveled in the stories of Dracula spun by her professorial father. After marinating the grimly titillating tales over a few decades, she decided to explore the subject of the legendary fictional vampire (and his real-life medieval prototype, Vlad the Impaler) for her first novel. It … Read more
The victorious White Sox weren’t the only ones to make Chicago proud in 2005.
Before her death last year, the modern dancer Sybil Shearer made history, literally, by penning a book.
Gillion Carrara, director of the Fashion Resource Center of the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.
After a century of conservatism, the William Wrigley Jr. Company leads the pack with a gutsy gum concept and a series of cheeky TV ads.
Noteworthy new book releases for March
Photo: Audrey Cho Devin Davis at the Hideout In 1999, Devin Davis moved to Chicago from Jacksonville, Florida, lured by the same local venues and homegrown labels that attract many aspiring musicians. But once he arrived, he realized his adopted city wasn’t much into pop, his genre of choice. “I didn’t know anybody to play … Read more
On the eve of a major exhibition at the Museum of Contemporary Art, the Oak Park cartoonist (along with some of his contemporaries) offers an introduction to a genre that is successfully blurring the line between literature and art.
