Events

Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump won their respective Illinois primary elections yesterday. And in other news: Turns out, a strong social safety net leads to lower mortality, and because poor, mostly-white areas in the U.S. voted theirs down to minuscule levels, poor, white people are not doing well. When you vote against your own party in a hot battle with the opposition governor, and the governor wins that battle, that's a career-limiting move. Illinois representative Ken Dunkin (D-Chicago) got...

I drove to a vendor site today because Google Maps told me it would take 18 minutes. (It took 21.) Then I drove around in expanding circles for almost 45 minutes trying to find a parking space, which I finally did almost a kilometer away. I really hate finding out after the fact that the slower form of transportation would have been faster.

First, 7am Friday: Yeah, thanks guy. Wet nose in the ear before my alarm clock goes off. And 7pm Saturday, at Rockefeller Memorial Chapel, just before we sang "Elijah:"

One of my apartments is vacant, and can be yours for some time. Here's the Craigslist post (which will be a dead link in a week or so): Sweet full 1BR, 625 sq.ft., jacuzzi tub, open kitchen, parquet floors, closet system. 16th floor of 21-story mid-century high rise, doorman, storage, exercise room, 24-hour laundry. Just steps to lake, Belmont Harbor, bike path; three blocks from St. Joseph hospital. Available now. $1500 The view (all photos from last Tuesday, March 8th): The living room (and a piece of...

Oh, you crazy kids. This is a short list of what happened Saturday afternoon and evening in the area around Wrigley Field: 1:26PM — Dust off the ambulance. We have a female unconscious outside of Sluggers World Class Sports Bar, 3540 N Clark. 2:16PM — Callers at Addison and Halsted report seeing a man with a gun in his pocket. He is the first of many persons who will be described as wearing green clothing. 11:26PM — Recommendation: Don’t drink on the public way. Especially in front of the police...

I really, really like the Original Pronunciation movement started by David and Ben Crystal. Through analysis and performance, they're trying to understand Shakespeare's plays as audiences 400 years ago would have understood them. The Crystals are back in the news with the upcoming publication of the Oxford Dictionary of Original Shakespearean Pronunciation this June. The Atlantic has the story: It’s a book, a guide to Shakespeare’s first folio, that Crystal has been working on for 12 years (on and off...