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Where is Chicago's coolest movie theater?

Chicago’s critical cinematic eye drew global respect as Gene Siskel and Roger Ebert became household names. Ebert now blogs about movies, but where he screens them — the Lake Street Screening Room — is one of the city’s hidden [...]

Chicago is well-represented in Bravo's Top Chef Masters competition

On the heels of last year’s win by Frontera Grill’s Rick Bayless, this year, five Chicago chefs — the most contestants from one city — are in the field of 22 for Bravo TV’s Top Chef Masters. For this week’s Chicago Explainer story, I created a culinary tale of the tape of Second City’s five local [...]

Social media and the sports scene

Fry’s article caught my eye because the debate has been an issue of interest. In December 2008 while writing for stltoday.com’s Speaking Visually graphics blog, I briefly discussed the impact of Lance Armstrong’s embrace of Twitter. [...]

Chicago Explainer: How does Illinois certify its election results?

There’s nothing quite like Illinois politics.

Tuesday’s Election Day turnout was much lower than expected, but three statewide races (the Democratic and GOP governor’s race primaries and the state comptroller race) were so close they are currently decided by less than one vote per [...]

An official response to the City Beat article

Unfortunately, the first thing I learned was even with good intentions to address a problematic facet of the media industry, “gotcha” tactics can easily mischaracterize someone. It dismisses credibility, hinders dialogue and undermines well-thought [...]