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Scatisfacturing Dissent

By Tim Willette
A week ago I encountered my first Snickword, "PEANUTOPOLIS," rolling its way down Milwaukee Avenue. This seemed like a cruel method of transporting the mentally ill - Nuthouse Express, please watch your step! - but the passengers looked comfortable with it.

Posted on July 28, 2006

Postcard Pablum: The Failure Of Millennium Park

By Steve Rhodes
Millennium Park fails as both art and as a park. And that pretty much nullifies the enterprise.

Posted on July 17, 2006

The Human Bean and the City

By Vince Michael
Like a Vegas hooker, Millennium Park is a cheat and a fantasy.

Posted on July 17, 2006

Bean: A Love Story

By Natasha Julius
Millennium Park is the drunk uncle of Chicago public spaces; kind of sloppy, overflowing with bravado and incoherently shouting half-cooked ideas at anyone it thinks will listen. But the Bean, oh, the Bean is a triumph.

Posted on July 17, 2006

Off The Rails: A Recent History Of CTA Screw-Ups

By Scott Gordon
The CTA is on a first-name basis with the NTSB. But are they listening to what their big brother is saying?

Posted on July 16, 2006

Cab #3329

The driver wants to look at me as he talks. So he adjusts his rear view mirror so he can. But then, do I look at him to talk as I have been, or do I look at his face in the mirror? I can't decide, and go back and forth, which probably marks me as neurotic, and possibly short of cash.

Posted on July 07, 2006

Cab #3005

Mmmm, strawberry car freshener . . .

Posted on July 07, 2006

Freedom Museum Rocks Acceptably

By Steve Rhodes
It's easy to make fun of the Freedom Center, but freedom geeks will also be inspired.

Posted on July 01, 2006

Freedom Museum Exhibits We'd Like To See

By Natasha Julius and Tim Willette
Speak Out! Air your grievance (unamplified) in a room filled with blaring televisions, radios, andloudspeakers.

Posted on July 01, 2006

MUSIC - Disco Tex meets Scatman Crothers. In Out of Sight: 1975.
TV - And Then There's Maude: Marijuana mama.
POLITICS - Oprah, don't do it! A Beachwood carol.
SPORTS - Kyle Orton is who we thought he was. In Bear Tuesday.

BOOKS - Why both the Democrats and Starbucks suck. In Reviewing the Reviews.

PEOPLE PLACES & THINGS - On the 5th day of Christmas, the Beachwood brought you lingerie.

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