• The Youngster bagel sandwich at R&A Sourdough

    The Youngster bagel sandwich at R&A Sourdough
    The Youngster at R&A Sourdough is a bagel sandwich with plain schmear, your choice of sausage or hot-honey bacon, egg frittata, cheddar, and hot sauce. But let’s get this out of the way: There are a few key customizations needed to make this a bagel sandwich worth talking about. The Youngster should be built on […]
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  • City contractor ‘failed’ clients as migrant shelter complaints mounted, staffers say

    City contractor ‘failed’ clients as migrant shelter complaints mounted, staffers say
    This story was a collaboration between the Investigative Project on Race and Equity and Borderless Magazine.  Reina Isabel Jerez García filed a grievance with the City of Chicago last fall when staff started serving smaller meals at the city-funded migrant shelter where she and her teenage son were staying. Dinner was a scoop of rice […]
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  • Unsettled landscapes

    Unsettled landscapes
    “Positions: New Landscapes through 2/23 at Hyde Park Art Center
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  • Get me rewrite!

    Get me rewrite!
    News of former president Jimmy Carter’s death on December 29 had me rummaging through a drawer I hadn’t opened in 40 years, searching in vain for notes from the day I met him. I didn’t find them, but this is what I remember: It was late summer or early fall, 1981. Carter had been out […]
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  • The new winter 2025 Monday Night Foodball schedule hates the game, not the player.

    The new winter 2025 Monday Night Foodball schedule hates the game, not the player.
    I regret to inform: I don’t give a shit about football. Sometimes when it’s invoked in casual conversation I can nod and pretend for a minute that whoever brings it up isn’t speaking Orcish. But mostly I wear my ignorance on my forehead. “Who’s Caleb Williams?” I blurted out one night last fall, my bad […]
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