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My latest is a love letter to Chicago. "I see you stumbling through the stubborn, awkward rhythm of showing up, again and again. I see you fighting alongside people who sometimes frustrate and confuse you, and defending neighbors you may have never met, because you know they’re all your people."
In Chicago, We Run Toward Danger Together
"Faced with unrelenting state violence, Chicagoans have refused to be cowed," says Mariame Kaba.
organizingmythoughts.org
November 8, 2025 at 2:46 PM
My latest is a love letter to Chicago. "I see you stumbling through the stubborn, awkward rhythm of showing up, again and again. I see you fighting alongside people who sometimes frustrate and confuse you, and defending neighbors you may have never met, because you know they’re all your people."
May I just say WHEW
We have big news! The Chicago Reader is joining Noisy Creek, a media company that’s working to bolster alternative weeklies. This national network includes The Stranger in Seattle and the Portland Mercury in Portland, Oregon.
Read the full statement at: chicagoreader.com/followthereader
Read the full statement at: chicagoreader.com/followthereader
The Chicago Reader is joining the Noisy Creek network! - Chicago Reader
We have big news! The Chicago Reader is joining Noisy Creek, a media company that’s working to bolster alternative weeklies and keep them thriving.
chicagoreader.com
August 26, 2025 at 3:53 PM
May I just say WHEW
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Column: The Corporation for Public Broadcast is ‘winding down.’ What does that mean for public radio and TV?
I talk with media studies professor and public media expert Josh Shepperd for an explainer. In short, it's dire
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I talk with media studies professor and public media expert Josh Shepperd for an explainer. In short, it's dire
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Column: The Corporation for Public Broadcast is ‘winding down.’ What does that mean for public radio and TV?
The Corporation for Public Broadcasting announced it is “wind-down” operations. What does this mean for public radio and TV?
www.chicagotribune.com
August 1, 2025 at 8:08 PM
Column: The Corporation for Public Broadcast is ‘winding down.’ What does that mean for public radio and TV?
I talk with media studies professor and public media expert Josh Shepperd for an explainer. In short, it's dire
Gift 🔗
I talk with media studies professor and public media expert Josh Shepperd for an explainer. In short, it's dire
Gift 🔗
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As the Texas flood clean up continues, I'm thinking about how after the tragedy of a natural disaster, its often immigrant workers that come in to clean up and are left to fend for themselves amid loosely regulated worker safety rules
by @mizamudio.bsky.social
publicintegrity.org/environment/...
by @mizamudio.bsky.social
publicintegrity.org/environment/...
They clean up after natural disasters. Now they’re getting sick.
Brothers Santos and Mariano have been chasing jobs after hurricanes for nearly two decades. And the grueling work of cleaning and rebuilding after natural disasters has taken a toll on their bodies. T...
publicintegrity.org
July 7, 2025 at 10:12 PM
As the Texas flood clean up continues, I'm thinking about how after the tragedy of a natural disaster, its often immigrant workers that come in to clean up and are left to fend for themselves amid loosely regulated worker safety rules
by @mizamudio.bsky.social
publicintegrity.org/environment/...
by @mizamudio.bsky.social
publicintegrity.org/environment/...
The Cheers + Marie-Helene Bertino mashup I didn’t know I needed: brooklynrail.org/2025/04/fict...
The Ecstasy of Sam Malone | The Brooklyn Rail
This story from Marie-Helene Bertino’s newest collection, Exit Zero, confirms her status as a master of slippery twilight, a true believer that if one sidles up to a threshold just right, she can pass...
brooklynrail.org
May 25, 2025 at 2:02 PM
The Cheers + Marie-Helene Bertino mashup I didn’t know I needed: brooklynrail.org/2025/04/fict...
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Respect to Frog for doing what writers fear doing: confronting your personal cliches instead of pretending you have none
pitchfork.com/reviews/albu...
pitchfork.com/reviews/albu...
Frog: 1000 Variations on the Same Song
Read Nina Corcoran’s review of the album.
pitchfork.com
February 21, 2025 at 3:30 PM
Respect to Frog for doing what writers fear doing: confronting your personal cliches instead of pretending you have none
pitchfork.com/reviews/albu...
pitchfork.com/reviews/albu...
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I wrote a brief appeal about why you should donate to the Chicago Reader to keep my newsroom afloat. Please donate if you can
donorbox.org/save-the-chi...
donorbox.org/save-the-chi...
Save the Chicago Reader - Leor Galil's Fundraiser on Donorbox
I published my first Reader story in the summer of 2010. It concerned a Logan Square DIY space called Strangelight, which operated out of a storefront in the Congress Theater. I was 24 at the time. Be...
donorbox.org
January 22, 2025 at 5:05 PM
I wrote a brief appeal about why you should donate to the Chicago Reader to keep my newsroom afloat. Please donate if you can
donorbox.org/save-the-chi...
donorbox.org/save-the-chi...
Bruce’s talent! Museum quality American crafting.
My dad has taken up quilting in recent years and his work never fails to blow my mind.
November 14, 2024 at 2:46 AM
Bruce’s talent! Museum quality American crafting.
Perennial fav
Also @jrnelson.bsky.social wrote the best piece about what it felt like to experience Pitchfork Music Festival after Conde bought the site and brought in loads of brands
The quest to be Pitchfork’s perfect consumer - Chicago Reader
What happens if you indulge every corporate sponsor at Pitchfork? Does the Chase Sapphire Lounge have to let you in?
chicagoreader.com
November 11, 2024 at 8:42 PM
Perennial fav
Flood watch from the current storm hitting on the anniversary of last year’s flood is pretty deeply uncool
July 11, 2024 at 2:15 AM
Flood watch from the current storm hitting on the anniversary of last year’s flood is pretty deeply uncool
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Mazel to @juliaheney.bsky.social in the New England Review!!
Baltimore by Night
In the city of vivid dreams, I take a call from a friend. He’s coming to the potluck, he says, he’ll bring eggs. Wild, I think, because in the dream I just had, he brought eggs to a party, cracked …
www.nereview.com
June 18, 2024 at 2:39 AM
Mazel to @juliaheney.bsky.social in the New England Review!!
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The capital of Vermont and hasn’t had a post office since July. Now a carrier has retired, leaving residents with no delivery and no place to ask for mail. Elections are in a month, 30% of residents vote by mail but showing a total lack of urgency, a USPS spokesperson says there are no updates.
Life without a post office leaves Montpelier area residents scrambling - VTDigger
After a mail carrier retired, residents and businesses in Montpelier and Middlesex have been left without mail and no physical post office to pick up their medicine or bills. The delivery problems are...
vtdigger.org
January 31, 2024 at 10:53 PM
The capital of Vermont and hasn’t had a post office since July. Now a carrier has retired, leaving residents with no delivery and no place to ask for mail. Elections are in a month, 30% of residents vote by mail but showing a total lack of urgency, a USPS spokesperson says there are no updates.
Can’t stop listening to this album, lovingly blame Nina
Frog is one of those bands that sneaks into a corner of your heart, growing warmer & bigger the more you listen. After 4 years of silence, I assumed they ended. Then Grog appeared. It made my heart glow in cold times, so I reviewed it for Pitchfork 🐸
Frog: Grog
Read Nina Cocoran’s review of the album.
pitchfork.com
January 4, 2024 at 7:29 PM
Can’t stop listening to this album, lovingly blame Nina
Climate anxiety index: very high
https://vtdigger.org/2023/07/10/as-montpelier-braces-for-major-flooding-residents-urged-to-evacuate-low-lying-areas/
https://vtdigger.org/2023/07/10/as-montpelier-braces-for-major-flooding-residents-urged-to-evacuate-low-lying-areas/
As Montpelier braces for major flooding, residents urged to evacuate low-lying areas - VTDigger
Fire Chief Robert Gowans said people in flood-prone areas should “start looking for a place to go” before roads become too flooded for travel.
vtdigger.org
July 10, 2023 at 8:13 PM
Climate anxiety index: very high
https://vtdigger.org/2023/07/10/as-montpelier-braces-for-major-flooding-residents-urged-to-evacuate-low-lying-areas/
https://vtdigger.org/2023/07/10/as-montpelier-braces-for-major-flooding-residents-urged-to-evacuate-low-lying-areas/
This series looks incredible! And it’s free, all ages, in a dreamy park. See you there?
Chicago friends, we booked some shows in the park by our house this summer. Come hang. https://blockclubchicago.org/2023/07/07/kilbourn-park-summer-concert-series-starts-friday-featuring-local-artists-throughout-july/
Kilbourn Park Summer Concert Series Starts Friday, Featuring Local Artists Throughout July
Concerts will take place every Friday this month and feature Chicago-based musical artists and sponsors.
blockclubchicago.org
July 7, 2023 at 2:59 PM
This series looks incredible! And it’s free, all ages, in a dreamy park. See you there?