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The Harassment Trap


Sexual misconduct in the workplace ruins lives and careers. In science, it also pushes promising researchers away and delays or prevents important scientific breakthroughs.
7/12/19

The Boys Will Will Work It Out, Part Two


Love + Radio's first sequel! We return to Lord of the Rings erotica writer Sarz Maxwell for a very different story about her day job as a psychiatrist and her controversial treatment of opioid addiction.
5/4/19

Is There Anything S.L. Huang Can’t Do?


MIT grad, martial artist, movie stuntwoman, and — maybe — a licensed pilot? The local multihyphenate talked to us about her myriad passions and second novel, Null Set.
May 2019

Black Feminist Thot


Mistress Velvet specializes in the subjugation of white men. (NSFW, but not as much as you might think.)
4/23/19

Is There Room for Everyone in the Methodist Church?


Lallene Rector, president of Garrett-Evangelical Theological Seminary in Evanston, on navigating the divide over LGBTQ inclusion in the United Methodist Church
4/15/19

How Alex Kotlowitz Tracked One Violent Summer in Chicago


The journalist discusses his new book, An American Summer.
2/25/19

How Eve Ewing Deconstructed a CPS Tragedy


The sociologist and poet publishes a postmortem on the 2013 public school closings.
10/1/17

Newsmaker: Sonia Sotomayor


Supreme Court justice and author teaches kids to embrace their differences
10/16/18

Bringing Harassment Out of the History Books


Addressing the troubling aspects of Melvil Dewey's legacy
6/1/18

Wikipedia Brown Finds the Clues


Eve Ewing, AB’08—sociologist, writer, poet, and Twitter star wikipedia brown—studies racism and inequality in public schools.
Winter 2017

Texas Rotarian raises awareness with purple hair


By now, Jenna Buscemi is used to the strange glances. In fact, she thrives on them.
1/18

The Badass Librarians of Jeopardy!


For librarian contestants of the popular game show, cash, kudos, and stories galore
11/1/7

The Boys Will Work It Out


Since a child, Sarz had a deep connection to the Lord of the Rings books. After the movie version came out in 2003, that connection went several layers deeper. (Note: This story is super-super-NSFW.)
7/6/17

Newsmaker: Sarah Jessica Parker


On never leaving the house without a book, and other tips from a fashionable and fervent reader
6/1/17

Rotary scholar combines business and environment


"I speak maybe three or four languages on a daily basis."
3/1/2017

Meet Chicago’s Meat Photographer


“I don't know anyone who's shot more raw meat in this town than me."
1/30/17

Newsmaker: Neil Patrick Harris


"If it’s crass and base and lewd, well … I guess that could be fun."
1/3/17

The Fearful Daily Life of an Undocumented Immigrant in Chicago


"If one person finds out, you're putting in jeopardy everything you've worked for."
11/3/16

A Best Friend–In Multiple Ways (PDF)


Service dogs do much more than help the blind.
May 2016

This week’s Chicagoan: Othman Al Ani, refugee


"I don't know where to go, I don't know how to pay, I don't even know how to use money."
12/17/15

Signal to Noise


"Apparently she was always running through the studios with handfuls of roller skates and cabbages."
7/1/15

Old-school sign painter Jeff Williams on why computer-generated stickers ain’t got soul


"Right as I got out of high school, I had a job working as an electrician, and I only did that for a few years before I realized, man, this kind of sucks, having a real job."
3/7/15

Books for Tonga


After a tsunami destroyed untold numbers of books on tropical islands, Lions and others got to work. (p. 22)
1/1/15

Opening Gambit


"That’s how the FBI opened a file on me when I was 11 years old."
1/1/15

The Talent Around the Table: Monica Saville


"You know how you feel compelled to do something? I felt a huge need to vaccinate children against polio."
10/1/14

Multiple Choice


You and your twin have been accepted at UChicago. Should you (a) both go somewhere else, (b) draw straws to decide who goes to UChicago and who goes somewhere else, or (c) both come to UChicago?
August 2014

Globetrotting Grandparents


“Whenever the train stopped, we went to the provincial parks offices, and Kees would hand out résumés."
7/1/14

Brain Storm


Bill Fienup and his colleagues are fast, but they're not furious.
7/1/14

Bach to the Future


B-boys, breaking to classical music. (See p. 46.)
6/1/14

This week’s Chicagoan: Roger Billhardt, nude model


"I don't go home with any women who paint me, and I don't accept any phone numbers."
5/30/14

This week’s Chicagoan: Doris Adepoju, truck driver


"I started thinking, 'If you go to truck driver school, you can still earn a living.' I thought: 'If I can, Lord, why not?'"
3/9/14

Top Dog


Founded 76 years ago, Leader Dogs continues to enrich the lives of the blind.
3/1/14

This week’s Chicagoan: Angie Morrow, collection manager at the Art Institute


"I spent most of my time on the floor, removing the parrot, so we would not crash and die."
2/7/14

Russian Tea Time a respite from the cold


"Where you can have now soup in a nice restaurant for $4? Tell me, please."
12/25/13

The Talent Around the Table: Doug Friedlander


Doug Friedlander moved from New York to the Mississippi Delta – and stayed.
12/13

Scav Hunt, Penis Researcher, A Parasite Game


What do they have in common? Diane Kelly.
December 2013

Escapist Reading


Arline Welty, AB’04, cofounder of Chicago Books to Women in Prison, on why her form of activism is fun.
July/August 2013

This week’s Chicagoan: Kayla Lane Freeman, new Chicagoan


"When my dad and I started approaching the city limits and seeing the buildings, that was the first time I started to feel sad, which was strange, 'cause that was the time I should have felt most excited."
7/26/13

Gin slinger: Popular bar creating buzz


How Scofflaw became Chicago's most buzzed-about bar.
7/18/13

This week’s Chicagoan: Trevor Burke, stand-up comic, age 11


"I'm not looking to get paid or anything, but I would accept the money. There’s so many cool things to buy. Video games are pretty cool."
7/1/13

This week’s Chicagoan: Annette Prince, director, Chicago Bird Collision Monitors


"Every time I get stuck on the Eisenhower, I think, 'One of these people could help me move this bird.'"
5/1/13

Pita Inn has built a loyal following


"I tell them, 'You have to do everything my way,' because my way has been successful."
3/14/13

Here comes Mae Ya Carter Ryan


The 11-year-old Bronzeville native has a voice that sounds decades older than she is. People are starting to listen.
3/6/13

This week’s Chicagoan: “Naughty Natanya” Rubin, burlesque performer


"When I'm at my day job, I'm just Natanya, and then in the evening, I'm occasionally naughty."
12/10/12

Rotarian George Maybee gets hooked on helping remote Pacific atoll


"Finally, a doctor said, 'Do you suppose you could get us some beds?' We said, 'Oh, yeah.' They said, 'Really?'"
December 2012

This week’s Chicagoan: Howard Cort, septuagenarian and activist


"I met my wife there—in fact, I stole her from somebody. I guess we're still friends, if he's still alive."
11/1/12

This week’s Chicagoan: Michael Adkesson, veterinarian, Brookfield Zoo


"There was a lot of money floating around, and they could buy elephants, and they did."
10/18/12

This week’s Chicagoan: Marcy Wagenberg, cochlear implant recipient


"Eight hours a day, I was trying to lip-read everybody at work, and then I'm gonna go out again at night and try to lip-read people?"
9/20/12

The Eye-Phone


Think you like your iPhone? The blind love it as life-changing. (p. 28)
9/14/12

This week’s Chicagoan: Rene Cudal, bike messenger


"I wear Jewel plastic bags wrapped around my feet to keep 'em warm. It may sound gross, but it works."
9/5/12

This week’s Chicagoan: Thomas Loconti, street artist


"When a situation of panic pops up, most people lose their shit and get really excited, but I don't."
8/22/12

This week’s Chicagoan: Kasia Koniar, director of scouting and development for Factor Women


"I start the careers of young models, many of them as young as 12 and 13."
8/8/12

This week’s Chicagoan: David Allen, tattoo artist


"What pain have you experienced in your life?"
7/24/12

This week’s Chicagoan: Beth Reiner, Amma devotee


"So she asked them to get a container and fill it with water, and then she turned it into a pudding."
6/27/12

Beer pressure: How nondrinkers find out they are often abstaining from business as well


“Most of the time I don't say to people, 'I don't drink,' because you want to fit in.”
6/11/12

This week’s Chicagoan: Pete Valavanis, Owner, Cary’s Lounge


"You can't just en masse throw everybody out; you've got to kind of little by little get the law established."
6/6/12

This Week’s Chicagoan: Leslie Goddard, Historical Interpreter


“You can drive in a hoopskirt. In a pinch, you can.”
5/16/12

This Week’s Chicagoan: Aaron Karmin, anger-management therapist


“So my client walks in. He's swinging the bat over his shoulder.”
4/25/12

This Week’s Chicagoan: Mia Park, kids’ show host


“Vanilla Ice was afraid of our puppet.”
3/20/12

Stepparents, No Rarity, Often Relegated to Support Status – or Simply Invisible


“I consider myself just as parent-y as the next parent.”
1/30/12

On A Spiritual Path to Financial Freedom


“It’s hot, it’s hot, it’s hot in here! There must be abundance in the atmosphere!”
1/29/09

Child’s Play


“First you sit down and you go, ‘Crap, crap, crap. I’m never going to be able to do this.’”
4/1/08

Beyond the Bitch Shield


“When, if ever, have you had six hot girls ask for your underwear?” (Mom, please don’t read this one.)
10/20/05

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