Think Dungeons and Dragons, except way sexier: If performing a poem for a live audience is scary, then doing so as a scantily clad Vaudevillian—essentially, role-playing a Victorian-era character while baring one’s soul—makes it less so... Read more
The Milwaukee-area is all about Frank Lloyd Wright this month. Want to spend the day immersed in the iconic architect’s work and the night sleeping in a home he designed? That can be arranged... Read more
Hermene Hartman, publisher and editor in chief of N’DIGO, angered some members of her African-American community when she endorsed Rahm Emanuel over Carol Moseley Braun. She told me recently that the black political/business/religious leaders who selected Moseley Braun had better move aside, or, at least, rethink their strategy. “We are not training people to run for office,” she laments. Her case in point: LeAlan Jones... Read more
CHICAGOMAG.COM EXCLUSIVE: The hosts of Sound Opinions tell us how many iPods they own, their favorite Chicago band no one knows about, how many times they've seen Spinal Tap, and more Read more
List Price: $825,000 Sale Price: $775,000 The Property: Three of the strikes against this 13-room home in a high-end Naperville subdivision are hard to hide: the empty lot on either side of the house and the third vacant lot behind this property’s nicely landscaped quarter-acre... Read more
Republicans in New Jersey, Indiana, and Ohio are all fighting unions, but it's the public-sector unions in Wisconsin that have captured the nation's attention. Here's what the governor did wrong... and one thing he's been widely blamed for that's not his fault. Read more
