SHADOW STATE, Best New Novel by a Chicagoan-@Chicago_Reader. Exec Editor, Connect @Stacker, @SNHU MFA adjunct Past: @CrainsChicago @TimeOutChicago @MTV @Newcity
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21 Feb 2024
Follow this link to grab a copy of Shadow State, the thriller named Best New Novel by a Chicagoan in the @Chicago_Reader 2023 Best of Chicago awards:
penguinrandomhouse.com/books…
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Jun 12
It’ll be Mumford & Grandsons by the time it’s over.
Jun 12
Update: Rain is gone, fans are going in, but the Mumford & Sons concert has yet to start.
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My review of the North American premiere of Brokeback Mountain at Chicago Shakespeare Theater, the tragic love story of two men in an impossible situation they can't manage to quit:
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Jun 6
CBS Radio covers D Day, 82 years ago today. The ability to cover events in close to real time was a miracle youtu.be/FOUw8TCTtX0?si=3Wtr…
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May 22
What great fun to introduce my 7-year-old to the joys of Monty Python via the National Tour of @EricIdle's wonderful Spamalot, now onstage @broadwaychicago's CIBC Theatre. He was gasping with laughter at the French Guards.
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May 17
Seems like a sub-optimal retail strategy.
As someone who survived the Cabbage Patch and Teddy Ruxbin crazes as a teen retail worker, you just sell out your stock and the shoppers go home. Not that scary.
May 17
Hundreds lined up at the Oak Brook Center Mall for a Swatch and Audemars Piguet Royal Pop Collection pocket watch, causing the store to decide to close for the day. A large number of police vehicles could be seen at the mall. abc7chicago.com/post/hundred…
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If you read one piece on his passing, this is the one to pick.
May 9
Born in Oklahoma and raised in California’s Central Valley agricultural region, Bobby Cox spent the second half of his life in Atlanta and became a cigar-smoking, umpire-berating Southern sports icon during 25 seasons as Braves manager and five as GM.
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May 6
Ted Turner spent 20 years making sure a kid in Montana could watch the Braves. MLB spent 20 years making sure a kid in Atlanta couldn’t
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She had me right up until she equated herself with the assault victims. Not a good look.
Julie Brown Fires Back at Editor Who Blocked Her Pulitzer Because Her Epstein Reporting Wasn't 'Fully Novel' mediaite.com/media/julie-bro…
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Apr 30
And tied the other one. This team is special.
The @Braves have won 9 of the 10 series they've played this season!
ALT Final score: Detroit Tigers 3, Atlanta Braves 4 Team records: Tigers 15-16, Braves 22-9 Pictured: Matt Olson jumps into home plate as his teammates mob him with water, bubblegum, whatever they could get their hands on, following his walk-off two-run homer Wednesday at Truist Park
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Love this game. Love this team. Love Freddie, but Matt is every inch his equal and seems to be just as good a human to boot.
Apr 30
Spencer Schwellenbach was right there at home plate to crown Matt Olson with the Dubble Bubble Hero's Helmet (my name for it).
Hang it in the Louvre.
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Apr 25
How sweet it is.
Apr 25
#Braves improve MLB-best record to 19-8 and hand Philly (8-18) its 10th consecutive defeat, meaning the Mets and Phillies both have a double-digit losing skid *before the end of April.*
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Frank Sennett retweeted
Apr 20
there are plenty of male fiction readers left in America - I shld know because they come to my book events & I get tons of emails from them every day
its possible they're mostly reading genre fiction but they are def still out there hungry for new stuff
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Apr 12
Not the flex he apparently thinks it is.
I’ve covered Eric Swawell since he was a member of the Dublin City Council. Shortly after being elected to Congress in 2013, his behavior towards women was known by all levels of our local government and the Alameda County Democratic Party.
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Apr 11
Good stuff.
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Apr 11
Stopped by Rolling Stones Records in Norridge to try to score the new “Cockroaches” (@RollingStones) single. Sold out. They said they got 4 copies…
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Mar 10
Two Illinois boys getting down to business.
Today in 1864, Lincoln assigns Ulysses S. Grant to command all United States Armies.
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Always Sam Axe to me. Sorry to hear this.
‘Evil Dead’ Actor Bruce Campbell Says He Has Cancer That’s ‘Treatable’ but Not ‘Curable’: But ‘I'm a Tough Old Son of a Bitch’ variety.com/2026/film/news/b…
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Feb 27
mate your tweet should be sent to every crime fiction editor in New York
no one (especially not a new writer) is allowed to sidetrack anymore
all crime novels and crime TV series apparently have to start w a gun battle on a runaway train in a thunderstorm at night
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Feb 20
You don’t want to see what he did with the rest of the Phanatic…
Bryce Harper's elbow guard is furry 🧐
ALT Bryce Harper waits to take batting practice at Phillies Spring Training. He wears a red Phillies workout shirt and helmet. On his elbow is a green Phillie Phanatic-inspired elbow guard.
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Feb 18
It’s not Monday morning quarterbacking to say the Braves should’ve added a starting pitcher this winter; they themselves said it was a priority entering the offseason. But they didn’t do it, and now a worst-case scenario is unfolding before spring-training games even begin. Ouch.
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