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Got my new lock - guess I’ve used Divvy for a while.
November 26, 2025 at 12:15 AM
Got my new lock - guess I’ve used Divvy for a while.
Baseball is for writers.
Did not expect one of the best paragraphs I’d read about baseball would come from an Irish newspaper
www.irishexaminer.com/sport-column...
www.irishexaminer.com/sport-column...
November 2, 2025 at 6:10 PM
Baseball is for writers.
Look at all those anxious Canadians. It’s like there’s a poutine shortage! Go Jays!
November 1, 2025 at 12:25 AM
Look at all those anxious Canadians. It’s like there’s a poutine shortage! Go Jays!
Check out this guy’s videos - and be prepared to fall down a long, fun rabbit hole. design.newcity.com/2025/10/24/c...
Chicago Architect Stewart Hicks' Unexpected YouTube Stardom
Hicks is a co-founder of Design with Company and professor of architecture at the University of Illinois at Chicago. His videos on architecture and design have earned him a wide audience.
design.newcity.com
October 24, 2025 at 12:36 PM
Check out this guy’s videos - and be prepared to fall down a long, fun rabbit hole. design.newcity.com/2025/10/24/c...
This is today! Raise a glass to Nelson Algren!
October 19, 2025 at 5:15 PM
This is today! Raise a glass to Nelson Algren!
Biggest crowd I’ve ever seen in Chicago. Never loved my city more.
October 18, 2025 at 7:27 PM
Biggest crowd I’ve ever seen in Chicago. Never loved my city more.
Chicago being a hellhole again. How do we stand living in such a great city?
Unbearably violent images from Downtown Chicago where a classical music concert was played on the Chicago River. This is too elegant and magical to be seen.
October 11, 2025 at 6:07 PM
Chicago being a hellhole again. How do we stand living in such a great city?
This is the NYT some days.
I like how the news will be like “while the President claiming Portland was ruled by a giant skeleton named Mr Nibbles is not strictly true, it does speak to the anxiety of many Americans”
October 11, 2025 at 1:38 AM
This is the NYT some days.
My daughter said the ICE agents lurking at the bus stops near her high school made her think of the dementors in “Harry Potter.” It’s Lane Tech - a top tier school. Watch out - the kids may do calculus at you!
October 11, 2025 at 12:21 AM
My daughter said the ICE agents lurking at the bus stops near her high school made her think of the dementors in “Harry Potter.” It’s Lane Tech - a top tier school. Watch out - the kids may do calculus at you!
ICE was outside my kid’s high school today - Lane Tech. They were by the CTA bus stops. Teachers went out to help the kids.
October 10, 2025 at 11:50 PM
ICE was outside my kid’s high school today - Lane Tech. They were by the CTA bus stops. Teachers went out to help the kids.
What happens when the kid who got bullied becomes the queen? www.newcitystage.com/2025/10/09/i...
In “Veal,” the Tormented Middle School Friend Becomes Queen of North America
The new dystopian play is the kind of in-your-face, challenging theater that A Red Orchid can do so well.
www.newcitystage.com
October 9, 2025 at 7:51 PM
What happens when the kid who got bullied becomes the queen? www.newcitystage.com/2025/10/09/i...
I’m getting coaching and it’s working out great! Sharon lights a fire!
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October 8, 2025 at 7:44 PM
I’m getting coaching and it’s working out great! Sharon lights a fire!
So you want to write a musical? www.newcitystage.com/2025/10/06/t...
Masi Asare Launches a Workshop for Writing Musicals at Northwestern
The university’s American Music Theatre Project will debut the Chicago Musical Theater Writers Workshop, offering instruction and support in musical theater writing for local writers and composers.
www.newcitystage.com
October 6, 2025 at 12:17 PM
So you want to write a musical? www.newcitystage.com/2025/10/06/t...
An historic mystery www.newcitystage.com/2025/10/01/d...
The Bloody History of A Seventeenth Century Countess Is Told in Idle Muse's New Production
"The Blood Countess" reveals the story of Erzsébet Bathóry, a Hungarian countess who was tried and convicted for allegedly killing hundreds of young girls.
www.newcitystage.com
October 1, 2025 at 2:18 PM
An historic mystery www.newcitystage.com/2025/10/01/d...
“An October sort of city, even in spring….” Come celebrate our city’s greatest novelist October 19th.
September 26, 2025 at 4:48 PM
“An October sort of city, even in spring….” Come celebrate our city’s greatest novelist October 19th.
Some cool Chicago history coming up.
September 26, 2025 at 4:46 PM
Some cool Chicago history coming up.
From today’s bike ride downtown. “Where are the songs of spring? Ay, Where are they?/Think not of them, thou hast thy music too… “
September 24, 2025 at 7:06 PM
From today’s bike ride downtown. “Where are the songs of spring? Ay, Where are they?/Think not of them, thou hast thy music too… “
“A Night of Mellon Collie and Infinite Sadness” Transforms A Nineties Icon for the Lyric Opera
James Lowe, a Grammy-nominated composer, director and arranger, discusses collaborating with Billy Corgan, The Smashing Pumpkins’ front man and lead songwriter.
music.newcity.com
September 23, 2025 at 12:44 PM
A meeting of water bottles at the Bloomingdale trail head. Mr. Blue-Green Top has the floor.
September 22, 2025 at 4:35 PM
A meeting of water bottles at the Bloomingdale trail head. Mr. Blue-Green Top has the floor.
From my friend Stacey.
Hell of a photo by my former Chicago Tribune colleague Stacey Wescott from a protest today at an ICE facility in the Chicago suburbs. Read the sign at the bottom. @staceywescott.bsky.social
HARDEST PHOTO OF 2025 JUST DROPPED
September 20, 2025 at 2:48 PM
From my friend Stacey.
Decline of a salesman www.newcitystage.com/2025/09/19/i...
Review: “Ashland Avenue” at the Goodman Theatre
Goodman's new play, crammed with Chicago details, stars Jenna Fischer and Francis Guinan.
www.newcitystage.com
September 19, 2025 at 12:21 PM
Decline of a salesman www.newcitystage.com/2025/09/19/i...
Waiting in line at Walgreens and realizing I never want to hear “Wonderwall” again.
September 19, 2025 at 12:47 AM
Waiting in line at Walgreens and realizing I never want to hear “Wonderwall” again.