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January 2008
Sales Check
By Rebecca Little
A roundup of sales, store openings, and shopping news in January 2008 Read more
Get Lit
By Amber Drea
Winter may be the perfect time to curl up with a good read, but even better than turning into a housebound bookworm is becoming an erudite social butterfly. Read more
Acting in Isolation
By Lucia Mauro
PJ Paparelli, the former head of Perseverance Theatre, Alaska's only professional troupe, makes the cross-continental move to claim his new role as artistic director of American Theater Company. Read more
The Smoking Gun
By Robert Loerzel
At the turn of the 20th century, the country's most famous antismoking crusader was a sharp-tongued, stern-faced zealot from Chicago who nearly succeeded in achieving a statewide ban on cigarettes. Now, as a new antismoking law takes effect in Illinois, her nearly forgotten story gets a fitting coda. Read more
Inside Job
By Michael Stone
As a U. of C. grad student, Sudhir Venkatesh talked his way inside a crack-dealing gang at the notorious Robert Taylor Homes and befriended its charismatic leader. Now, in a new book, this "rogue sociologist" tells of his up-close—at times perhaps too close—encounter with gang life Read more