The New York Times's Bill Keller comes to bury Twitter, not to praise it. I've come to lift his fail-whale of an essay to the skies, so that the medium can be appreciated for what it is, (virtually) here and now. Read more
Double Boiler Sue Kim-Drohomyrecky and Peter Drohomyrecky, who own Custom House Tavern in the South Loop, announced their plans to open two restaurants in the Lakeshore East area... Read more
Since Jeanne Gang’s Aqua was completed in 2009, views of the tower have landed in countless tourists’ scrapbooks and Facebook posts. But views from Aqua can be pretty sweet, too, as you will see in the video and pictures I shot recently from two condos for sale on the tower’s top residential floors... Read more
After Election Day, Gery Chico—who fell short of a runoff with Rahm Emanuel—stayed out of the spotlight for a while. The former Daley chief of staff, who once ran Chicago Public Schools and the Chicago Park District, was the only opponent who had even a chance of beating Emanuel in this year’s race for mayor. Here, some highlights from our telephone conversation Tuesday, his first one-on-one interview with... Read more
This Week’s Five: A pared-down Porgy and Bess debuts … Chicago History Museum is out and proud … our pints runneth over with craft beer … four seriously big freebies … plus, weekend plans from the Midwest Independent Film Festival’s Mike McNamara Read more
Thanks to Lee Bey, I now know that I can lease an early Skidmore Owings Merrill house in Lake County. Coming up with the $1.6 million for restoration could be tricky, though. Plus: an art deco gem in Milwaukee. Read more
Basketball allowed Derrick Rose to get out of Englewood. But it also kept him, and his family, safe. According to Rose, he was actually safer in Englewood than he would have been elsewhere, because of the game. Read more
Steve Bogira challenges the conventional wisdom about the old "Beirut by the Lake" cliche and suggests an alternative to reflect the evolution of race and politics in Chicago after Harold Washington. Read more
Fashion Flashback
When the Midwest native Kelsey Tanner-O’Connor moved to Paris at age 18, she fully realized her love for vintage and couture fashion. But that doesn’t mean it’s where all her money went... Read more
