What You Should Know About the Polar Plunge This Weekend By Kaitlyn Jakola At noon on January 25, members of the Lakeview Polar Bear Club will meet at Oak Street Beach to jump into freezing Lake Michigan. Read this before joining them. Read more
Survey: What's Wrong with Clark the Cub? The new Cubs mascot has attracted quite a bit of ridicule. What's the problem? Read more
How Extreme Will Chicago’s Weather Get? By Whet Moser Expert predictions for deep winter and beyond. Read more
Requiem for Dominick’s By Mark Bazer Chicagoans took the old grocery chain for granted. Now we’re all paying for it. Read more
How the Field Museum's Chief Curiosity Coordinator Stood Up Against Internet Sexism, and How We Can Help Fight Trolls By Whet Moser Emily Graslie went viral with a video standing up to passive and aggressive misogyny. And it worked. Read more
The Afternoon Joan Fontaine Told Me to Get a Manicure By Carol Felsenthal The author recalls how her worst interview, out of a career of thousands, was conducted with the late actress in a limo to O'Hare. Read more
How Do You Survive the Chicago Winter? It's been a long December. Take our reader poll and tell us how you make it through. Read more
A Guide to Playing Hooky During the Holidays By Mark Bazer How to spend barely any time in the office this month—without taking a single vacation day Read more
Where to Toast 2014 in Chicago By Matt Pollock Low-key cocktails, aerial dancers and pyrotechnics, the year in 30 plays, and more. Read more
