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Que sera, sera
When I was just a little girl, I asked my mother, ‘What will I be?’” So goes the song Doris Day crooned in the 1956 Alfred Hitchcock film, The Man Who Knew ...
Scoop in the Loop
In a town where City Council is seen largely as Mayor Richard M. Daley’s rubber stamp, a lone alderman stood up for the people during the 2009 budget meeting last week. ...
Que será, será
Last Christmas, my parents bought me a sewing machine. I asked for it because I was tired of having to buy clothes I figured I could make for less money. And I ...
Scoop in the Loop
It took guts, Chicago Reader
Covers sell papers. It's the reason RedEye is so widely read (even if it's free). If it "pops" off the newsstand, it gets picked up.
I have copies of three different ...
The dirt on ‘Dancing’ stars
The Chronicle talks to cast members in the first U.S. stage production of ‘Dirty Dancing’
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No need for a headline
Because some things are better left unsaid
As we were wrapping up The Election Issue, the staff at the Chronicle racked their brains for a headline that would sell. We needed a headline that would say "historic" and "connected ...
Scoop in the Loop
City celebrates life after death
So far this year, 11 Chicago Public School students have been shot and killed. "American Idol" star and Oscar winner Jennifer Hudson's nephew, Julian King, was the last to fall. In ...
CeaseFire an imperfect solution to violent city
By the time this gets published, the news may have already changed.
Sometimes it's difficult to stay current when you're a weekly newspaper. You have to choose your stories carefully. When writing this ...
Memoirs of a packrat
I moved at the end of last month, and only when I was boxing everything up did I realize how much stuff I had-in addition to my memorabilia-that I don't even use. ...
Don’t be ‘that guy’—register to vote
We've come a long way, baby.
In 1870, black people got the right to vote with the 15th Amendment, but for decades it was hindered by disenfranchisement until Congress passed legislation ...
Que será, será
About a month ago, I decided to cut my presence on popular social networking sites (most notably, Facebook). If you're like most people reading this, you know how much time it takes ...
Que será, será
I see London, I see France, I see Julius' underpants!
You can bet that wasn't the tune the town of Riviera Beach, Fla., sang when Julius Hart, a 17-year-old male, was arrested for ...
Scoop in the Loop
When I think about helping people, I'll usually help my family first because, well, they're my flesh and blood. Where do you think the phrase "Help a brother out" came from? If ...
Que sera, sera
I remember my first election in 2004. I was fresh out of high school and attending a women’s college. Even though it’s in the Bible Belt state of Missouri, Cottey College is ...
City of big eatin’
Chicago’s World Fair first introduced America to hamburgers and shredded wheat in 1893. Ever since, Chicago’s been proving to the world that it’s definitely no second city—from slices of deep-dish pizza packed ...