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"When the Levee Breaks," anthologized in Breakthrough Bleeding: Essays on the Thing Women Spend a Quarter of Their Time Doing, But No One’s Supposed to Talk About, forthcoming from She Devil Press; scheduled publication date fall 2008.
 
   

 
   
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A&T Grill
A very brief paean to the best diner in Chicago from a "Favorite Things" roundup (Chicago Reader)
Who's Making It Here
Look at the Chicago-based TV production world (Chicago Reader)
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Let Us Now Praise R.J. Grunt's
Connection between Rich Melman's empire and Chicago's avante garde food (cover story, Chicago Reader)
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A Chef's Family Tree
Snapshot of Chicago restaurant scene and its family tree of chefs (Chicago Reader)
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Familiarity Breeds Another Attempt
Review of the Kiera Knightley Pride & Prejudice (Chicago Reader)
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What's Gorey's Story?
First examination of the Chicago childhood of writer and illustrator Edward Gorey (cover story, Chicago Reader)
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The Roots of Evil
Review of Andrew Vachss' Two Trains Running (Chicago Reader)
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My First Ring
The experience that is Wagner's Ring Cycle (Chicago Reader)
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Little House in Disneyland
Review of Wonderful World of Disney's production of Little House on the Prairie (Chicago Reader)
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Diva Doina
Review of Tosca at the Lyric Opera (Chicago Reader)
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Cinematic Zelig
Profile of actor Jack Carson (Carleton College Voice)
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Eat, Memory
Review of Nigel Slater's Toast and look at American v. British food writing (Chicago Reader)
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History vs. Her Story
Review of Mona Lisa Smile (Chicago Reader)
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Cheaper by Eleven?
Feature about the history and secrets in children's classic Cheaper by the Dozen (Chicago Reader)
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Secret Recipe
(finalist, 2003 Lisagor Awards)
Feature about MFK Fisher biographer Joan Reardon and trickiness of the subject (cover story, Chicago Reader)
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Not So Good in Bed
Review of Jennifer's Weiner's Good in Bed (Scarlet Letters)
Fat Chance
(finalist, 2001 Lisagor Awards)
Review of Shallow Hal and look at the state of the size acceptance movement (Chicago Reader)
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Big Sky, Good Grub
Review of "Camp Cookin' with CeeDub" (Local Palate)
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blog - ongoing
Cahiers du Moment - http://www.cahiers-elizabeth.blogspot.com
 
Some noteworthy entries:
Ode to the front-loaders
Review of movie broadcast of Barber of Seville
Tribute to Chicago DJ Herb Kent
Pixels, pride and double chins
Mollie Sugden of Are You Being Served?
Martha Stewart and Nazi nightstands
The parallel world of cats
When art finds you, wherever you are
Etta James and ubiqui-At Last
Hugh Laurie
Agnes Moorehead
Paula Dean
Chicago architecture and charity
 

 
The FOOD ChAIN - ongoing
Chicago Reader multi-authored food blog - http://blogs.chicagoreader.com/food/
 
Some noteworthy entries:
Meryl Cast as Julia, Nora to Direct
Simple Pleasures
A Prune by Any Other Name
Now That's Spin
New Yorker True Gastronomic Story
Boring or Fascinating?
Conrad at the Frog
Food Network Likes Them Young
Where's the Beef?
Fud Network Goes Latin
Un Autre?
Tiny Bubbles
Judging the Book Cover Judging
Super Size This
In the News
National Pie Day
Bouquet of Bargain Blades
Flatfoots, Molls and Clip-joints
Zeitgeist Follies
A Simple Transitory Pleasure
Menu for James Brown Memorial Dinner
Cupcake Civil War
Eating Habits of the Rich and Royal
One Last Recommendation
Charlie's Big Announcement
More Foie Gras Fracas
Tired of Turkey
Gordon Ramsay Crosses Pond (Loudly)
Chickens in Space
It's That Luxe Time of Year