Union Grills Mayoral Candidates Nothing like a captive audience. City employees got a chance to question two of their potential future bosses on Monday, April 29. The [...] Carolyn Carlson \ May 07, 2009 Read More Neither Dukes (right) nor the mayor attended the union forum.
Hot Polling Action #56 Are You Going On Vacation This Summer? Economic crisis, global pandemics, plagues of locusts: Minus that last one (we hope), there may be some obstacles to travel in summer ’09. [...] Jessica Cassyle Carr \ May 07, 2009 Read More We wish we were there, too!
I Am A Chicago Dog On the greatest day of my life, I was in the Chicago History Museum being made into a Chicago-style hot dog.Here’s a list [...] Simon McCormack \ May 07, 2009 Read More ME! (Ashley Treibel)
Eye Of The Tiger # 2 The Sweet Science Ahead of my upcoming feature story on cage fighting in Albuquerque, I’ll be training at Jackson’s Mixed Martial Arts gym. This the second [...] Ari Organ Donor LeVaux \ May 07, 2009 Read More UFC Heavyweight Champion Rashad Evans spars with UFC Welterweight Champion, Georges St-Pierre.
¡Ask A Mexican! Sneak Preview! Due to the timeliness of his next column, Gustavo Arellano has given us permission to post next week’s installment (May 7-13) early. And [...] Christie Chisholm \ May 07, 2009 Read More (Mark Dancey)
The Death Of The Boston Globe? From the Washington Post: “The New York Times Co. said last night that it is notifying federal authorities of its plans to shut [...] Christie Chisholm \ May 07, 2009 Read More
No Bailout For Newspapers White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs says he’s not sure the government can do much to stop the decline of newspapers around the [...] Simon McCormack \ May 07, 2009 Read More
How To Eat Sushi Without Killing The Ocean If I could afford it, I’d eat sushi every day. It’s never occurred to me that because I love sushi—and so does everyone [...] Marisa Demarco \ Apr 30, 2009 Read More Bluefin tuna
The Daily Word 06.01.09 GM filed Chapter 11 bankruptcy.Livermore unveils super laser.Other scientists develop green, glowing monkeys.Tom Nayder is in Chicago where there have been seven murders [...] Nick Brown \ Apr 30, 2009 Read More
Webgame Wednesday Bloody Fun Day I am officially addicted to Bloody Fun Day. Now you can be too. In this easy-to-learn-hard-to-master strategy game, you play the Grim Reaper. [...] Devin D. O'Leary \ Apr 30, 2009 Read More