✶✶✶✶ That guy with the sideburns. Ex-journalist, now PR exec and nonprofit ED. Host of 20x2 Chicago @20x2chi@bsky.social http://me3dia.com Need a Chicago star? http://me3dia.com/star.html
Toothpaste locked up while $30+ bottles of supplements are not shows just how concerned with retail theft these companies are. dannykatch.substack.com/p/we-used-to...
We used to be able to buy things in this countryLocking up toothpaste was a warning sign that our executive class was crazydannykatch.substack.com
Happy centennial, Chicagoland.
100 years ago newsJuly 27, 1926: "Chicagoland" as a term for the Chicago metro area is coined in a headline that runs in the Chicago Tribune over the beginning of a series on the area's cultural treasures and tourist destinations. Publisher Robert McCormick will relentlessly plug the phrase for years.
Carville's War on the Democratic Left Is Funded by Centrist Billionaires readsludge.com/2026/07/25/c...
Carville's War on the Democratic Left Is Funded by Centrist BillionairesJames Carville's firm has been paid by American Bridge, a super PAC funded by billionaires who also bankroll groups fighting progressives in primaries—and he advised a lobbying shop the crypto industr...readsludge.comI was fortunate enough to go to a private screening at the Lake Street Screening Room as part of @kylejohnston.bsky.social's bachelor party a decade ago. There was much reverence among our group for that space. Sad to see it go.
Scott TobiasI've been a critic in Chicago for almost exactly 27 years, and the screening room at the top of 70 E. Lake St. has so many memories for me. Good piece from Richard Roeper, and I love that he talked to the projectionist, Steve Kraus. Great guy, great at his job: www.rogerebert.com/features/a-h...
Brought to you by the same festival management company that runs the Windy City Hot Dog Fest in Portage Park, famous for not including a hot dog stand located within the festival grounds. chicago.eater.com/2022/6/3/231...
Hot Dog Stand Owner Claims He Was Snubbed by Neighborhood Sausage FestNone of Windy City Hot Dog Fest’s listed vendors are based in the neighborhood where it will take place on Saturday and Sundaychicago.eater.comJeff Fest is now "Chicago Italian Beef Fest," featuring eight Italian beef vendors, only one of which is in Jefferson Park. One is from Oswego. blockclubchicago.org/2026/07/23/j...
Jeff Fest Is No More. It’s The Chicago Italian Beef Fest NowAfter 25 years, Jefferson Park’s namesake festival has rebranded to focus on Italian beef sandwiches. The fest is July 31-Aug. 2.blockclubchicago.org
Blue Team Con is one of my favorite cons, and I’m so excited to get to keynote this year! 💙
Blue Team Con📣 We're excited to announce this year's Blue Team Con Keynote Speaker - Ian Coldwater! Learn more about Ian and their keynote address here: blueteamcon.com/2026-keynote...
