Over the weekend, Charlie Sheen was booed in Detroit and had his career as a speaker revived in Chicago (such instantaneous pulse-taking on the actor's quasi-career as a public speaker is enough to make one regret baser elements of the Internet, which kick-started the nonsense in the first place). Entertainment Weekly, perhaps uncouthly, said Read More
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On Sunday, former White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel released the first commercial for his campaign to become Chicago's Mayor on Youtube.
Emanuel left his D.C. job in September. He officially announced his candidacy in the race for Chicago City Hall on Saturday.
The ad begins by emphasizing Emanuel's roots Windy City roots.
"Chicago is Read More
A nearby journalist was the unintentional victim of an attack on Rahm Emanuel.
Someone threw an egg at Rahm Emanuel while he was out campaigning for Mayor in Chicago. Emanuel left his gig as White House Chief of Staff in September to make his mayoral bid.
The flying ovum missed Emanuel and struck Read More
First they came for the parks, then the parking meters.
The city is considering selling off its 54,236 parking meters, scattered across the five boroughs, according to a report in the Post, with an anticipated windfall of $5 billion. Officials tell the tab that nothing is imminent, and the plan runs against the mayor's Read More
Rahm Emanuel is officially leaving the White House, President Obama announced today in a press conference that was, at this point, a foregone conclusion. To commemorate the f-bomb-dropping Chief of Staff's time in Washington, Austan Goolsbee, the new Chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers, got Rahm a little going-away present. This morning Emanuel held Read More
After slashing the asking price by more than $2.6 million earlier this month, it looks like JP Morgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon has found a buyer for his eight-bedroom, nine-bath Chicago mansion.
Crain's Chicago Business reports that the enormous house, which has such amenities as a wine vault and a master bedroom that takes Read More
Among the laments for the Death of New York is the disappearance of many of the mom-and-pops that once lined the city's streets. As bank branches and pharmacies and Marc Jacobses have descended on the city, the small-time merchants have fallen prey. Now they may be facing their biggest threat yet, Read More
But oh! The Read More
And when these people exit our five boroughs, they really exit: City Comptroller Bill Thompson’s office analyzed the Census Bureau’s recent Read More
CHICAGO—The field-operations office for Barack Obama’s Presidential campaign is cramped into a small corner room overlooking downtown Chicago and the river that is dyed green for St. Patrick’s Day. The walls are papered in maps and yellow strips of oversized legal pads, one of which listed more than 20 states.
“All these states are thinking of Read More
Tina Balazs and Michael Ferreter Met: December 2000 Engaged: Aug. 15, 2006 Projected Wedding Date: Feb. 10, 2007 Michael Ferreter, 32, a production manager for ABC News, is marrying Tina Balazs, 29, an associate project manager for the Publicist Medical Education Group, who is no relation to the boutique hotelier (and Uma Thurman’s boyfriend) Andre—we Read More
Tina Balazs and Michael Ferreter Met: December 2000 Engaged: Aug. 15, 2006 Projected Wedding Date: Feb. 10, 2007 Michael Ferreter, 32, a production manager for ABC News, is marrying Tina Balazs, 29, an associate project manager for the Publicist Medical Education Group, who is no relation to the boutique hotelier (and Uma Thurman’s boyfriend) Andre—we Read More
Tina Balazs and Michael Ferreter Met: December 2000 Engaged: Aug. 15, 2006 Projected Wedding Date: Feb. 10, 2007 Michael Ferreter, 32, a production manager for ABC News, is marrying Tina Balazs, 29, an associate project manager for the Publicist Medical Education Group, who is no relation to the boutique hotelier (and Uma Thurman’s boyfriend) Andre—we Read More
Five years ago, Martin Amis published a peculiar little book about Stalin called Koba the Dread: Laughter and the Twenty Million. Part memoir, part polemic, part history lesson, it seemed a misuse of the novelist’s considerable talents (one eminent historian complained of “basic factual errors on almost every other page”). Why couldn’t clever Mr. Amis, Read More
I heard a report that Sen. Barack Obama's position on Israel/Palestine is no different from the Democratic mainstream, that in fact he abandoned a more progressive view—which you might expect given his multicultural/international backstory—to get there. I asked someone who would know, Ali Abunimah (of electronic intifada), who lives in Chicago. Abunimah wrote Read More
